Every day, Costa Rica's restaurants and hotels throw away food scraps that could be feeding local farms. NutriTicos captures that flow and turns it into affordable rendered feed, clean fuel, and soil amendments for smallholder farmers. Joining the network is how you put yourself on the map of Costa Rica's food sovereignty.
If you've ever looked at a dumpster behind your kitchen and wondered whether any of that could be feeding someone — it can. Costa Rica imports 100% of its corn and soybeans, at 2–3× the global price, and those imports are what make it impossible for small farmers to compete on feed cost. Your food scraps are the missing link.
NutriTicos exists to close that loop. The restaurants, hotels, fish processors, and slaughterhouses we work with aren't customers of a waste service — they're the first link in a food sovereignty network that ends with small farmers raising pigs and chickens on Costa Rica's own waste streams, at prices they can actually afford.
The mission in one sentence: as long as Costa Ricans eat, Costa Rica's farmers should have access to affordable feed. Your kitchen is where that promise starts.
Restaurant partners pay a small monthly participation fee that covers a fraction of the real collection cost. The rest is subsidized by downstream revenue from feed, fuel, and biochar sales — which is exactly how the loop is supposed to work. The fee is there to make the relationship a commitment, not to recover cost.
For context, the participation fee on any given restaurant runs substantially below what comparable municipal or private waste hauling would cost. We'll quote you a specific number once we know your volume and location.
A story that matters. We provide quarterly impact reports showing how many tonnes your restaurant diverted from landfill, how many kilos of feed that translated into, and which farms in your region received the product. You can show that to your customers, to press, to a food-policy board. It's real.
Permit & inspection support. Municipalities increasingly require documented organic-waste diversion plans. Our participation documentation meets those requirements cleanly and gives your compliance officer a shorter conversation.
Decreto 45308 readiness. Costa Rica's forthcoming odor regulation takes effect May 2027 and will change how restaurants handle organic waste onsite. Participating in the network puts you ahead of that curve.
On timing: the plant is being built. We are accepting restaurant partners now for the first collection route, which goes live when the plant is commissioned. Early partners get to shape the schedule and the logistics together with our operations team — not retrofit into a route that's already set.
Use the form to join the first collection route. Tell us what kind of operation you run — restaurant, hotel, lodge, fish processor, meat processor — where you are, and roughly how much food waste you generate per day. We respond within 3 business days with a volume estimate, proposed pickup schedule, and participation fee quote.