Who We Are

Greener Bay Compost is Northeastern Wisconsin’s premier compost company, serving the Greater Green Bay area with our Award-Winning Residential and Commercial Compost Pickup Services, our area’s only food-waste-focused compost facility, and year-round sales of our nutrient-rich, contaminant-free compost.

If you’re looking for an Easy, Clean, Convenient, and Green way to recycle your food scraps and associated organics, meet your sustainability goals, or reduce your “carbon footprint,” whether you’re an individual/family or a business/organization, then you’ve come to the right place!

Our Compost Pickup Services, which are essentially Waste Management services mixed with Recycling operations, were designed to help our environment by diverting as many food scraps and associated organics from our local landfills as possible.

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What We Do

Each week, we divert thousands of pounds of food scraps and associated organics from our local landfills, with the help of our hundreds of Compost Pickup Service subscribers, and transport them to our compost facility in the Town of Lessor, where we convert them, over the course of several months, into a nutrient-rich soil amendment known as compost, which we reward our subscribers with and make available for sale to the general public, year-round.

The composting process we use is known as “hot composting,” which involves us building long piles (known as windrows) of food scraps and associated organics mixed with wood shavings, which we turn and water for several months, to keep tiny bacteria called “microbes” inside the piles alive and thriving.

These microbes break down the materials in our windrows, generating heat as they do so (killing both pathogens and weed seeds in the process), until eventually the materials no longer resemble food, but rather soil, with a rich, chocolatey-brown color and a sweet, “clean,” earthy smell.

Important to note: Unlike the landfilling of food scraps and associated organics, our process produces no methane (a toxic greenhouse gas 20-30 times more potent than carbon dioxide).

After as little as 13 to 14 weeks, our compost is “finished,” at which point we screen it down to 1/4″ in size (thus making it perfect for not only backyard gardens, flower beds, and agriculture, but houseplants, lawns, golf courses, and athletic fields as well) and package it up, in Gallon and Cubic Foot sized bags, for sale to the general public (and as rewards for our subscribers).

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Our History, Achievements, and Major Milestones to Date:

✅ Founded our company out of our Founder’s backyard and began serving residents of nine Municipalities, including Green Bay, De Pere, Allouez, Ashwaubenon, Bellevue, Hobart, Howard, Ledgeview, and Suamico, with our one-of-a-kind Compost Pickup Services. (July 2021)

✅ Was featured in our local news for the first time ever, in a story by NBC26. (October 2021)

✅ Was featured in a story by Fox11 News. (November 2021)

✅ Was featured in a live television segment on Local 5 Live. (November 2021)

✅ Acquired our nearly-seven-acre compost facility in the Town of Lessor. (May 2022)

✅ Was featured in a story by The Press-Times, “Green Bay’s Official Newspaper.” (May 2022)

✅ Began selling our 1/4″ screened, premium compost for the first time, direct-to-consumer, in Cubic Foot sized bags, through GBCompost.com/Compost. (June 2022)

✅ Acquired our first-ever bucket loader (a John Deere 1025R) to manually turn/aerate our compost piles with. (July 2022)

✅ Began serving our first-ever Commercial Compost Pickup Service subscriber, Glass Nickel Pizza of Green Bay. (August 2022)

✅ Diverted 30,000 pounds of our subscribers’ food scraps and associated organics from our local landfills in our first full year of operation. (August 2022)

✅ Won the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) 2022 Recycling Excellence Award in the “Overall Program” category, for our Residential Compost Pickup Service. (October 2022)

✅ Introduced Gallon sized bags of our 1/4″ screened, premium compost, to compliment our existing Cubic Foot sized bags. (October 2022)

✅ Presented to the Green Bay Sustainability Commission, regarding a potential Compost Pilot Program with the City of Green Bay. (October 2022)

✅ Got our 1/4″ screened, premium compost (in Gallon sized bags) into our first retail store, Soul Purpose (at the time located in Suamico, Wisconsin). (November 2022)

✅ Was featured in a story by The Press-Times, regarding our 2022 Recycling Excellence Award win. (November 2022)

✅ Presented to the De Pere Sustainability Commission, regarding a potential Public-Private Partnership between the City of De Pere and Greener Bay Compost. (December 2022)

✅ Began serving our second Commercial Compost Pickup Service subscriber, Kavarna Coffeehouse/Café & Roastery. (December 2022)

✅ Began serving our third Commercial Compost Pickup Service subscriber, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. (January 2023)

✅ Got our 1/4″ screened, premium compost (in Gallon sized bags) into our second retail store, the Green Bay Botanical Garden gift shop. (January 2023)

✅ Began serving our fourth Commercial Compost Pickup Service subscriber, Bellin Hospital. (January 2023)

✅ Expanded our service area to officially include the Town of Lawrence and the Town of Rockland, both in Brown County, Wisconsin. (February 2023)

✅ Got our 1/4″ screened, premium compost (in Gallon and Cubic Foot sized bags) into our third retail store, Roots on 9th. (February 2023)

✅ Was featured in a story by the Green Bay Press-Gazette. (February 2023)

✅ Began serving our fifth Commercial Compost Pickup Service subscriber, Bellin Psychiatric Center. (March 2023)

✅ Got our 1/4″ screened, premium compost (in Gallon and Cubic Foot sized bags) into our fourth retail store, Country Visions Cooperative’s De Pere Country Store. (April 2023)

✅ Began serving our sixth Commercial Compost Pickup Service subscriber, HSHS St. Vincent Hospital. (April 2023)

✅ Began serving our seventh Commercial Compost Pickup Service subscriber, Pepperboy Pizza of Green Bay. (August 2023)

✅ Diverted 70,000 pounds of our subscribers’ food scraps and associated organics from our local landfills in our second full year of operation. (August 2023)

✅ Was featured in a blog post by New Leaf Foods. (November 2023)

✅ Established our first-ever Public-Private Partnership, which would see the City of De Pere cover half the cost of our Residential Compost Pickup Service for their residents, up to $10,000 in year one. (November 2023)

✅ Got our 1/4″ screened, premium compost (in Gallon sized bags) into the Bay Park Square mall in Ashwaubenon, via our partnership with Soul Purpose. (November 2023)

✅ Was featured in an article by The Business News, regarding our Public-Private Partnership with the City of De Pere. (December 2023)

✅ Began serving our eighth Commercial Compost Pickup Service subscriber, Riverside Pizzeria of Green Bay. (January 2024)

✅ Met with the De Pere Sustainability Commission to further discuss a potential Public-Private Partnership between the City of De Pere and Greener Bay Compost. (January 2024)

✅ Grown from serving just 16 Residential subscribers in August 2021 to now serving 180+ Residential subscribers, plus a handful or so of Commercial subscribers. (January 2024)

✅ Are on our way to diverting 100,000+ pounds of our subscribers’ food scraps and associated organics from our local landfills in our third full year of operation. (August 2024)

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Our Impact

As of the time of this writing, we have nearly 200 Residential subscribers, plus a handful or so of Commercial Subscribers, have produced and sold/distributed thousands of pounds of our 1/4″ screened, premium compost, been featured on/in the news multiple times (including on NBC26, Fox11, and Local 5 Live, as well as in the Green Bay Press-Gazette, Press Times, and The Business News), and diverted over 150,000 pounds (75 TONS) of food scraps and associated organics from our local landfills, thereby saving all the Municipalities whose we residents serve countless taxpayer dollars (and delaying the building of yet another landfill in the Green Bay metropolitan area).

And the best part? We’re just getting started!

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QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions or concerns about us or our services, please do not hesitate to Contact Us or visit our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page. We are always here to help!

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