If this day is your next scheduled Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup Day, please remember to place your full/semi-full bucket(s), with lid(s) snapped securely on top, in a safe, easily accessible area of your property, such as on your front step/porch/patio, in front of your garage, or at the end of a walkway leading to your drive, by no later than 8:00 AM Central Standard Time (CST) on this day.

Failure to do so can result in your household being skipped until your next scheduled Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup day.

PLEASE DO NOT PLACE YOUR BUCKET(S) AT THE END OF YOUR DRIVEWAY OR NEAR THE CURB, WHERE IT/THEY MAY BE MISTAKEN FOR TRASH AND DISPOSED OF BY YOUR MUNICIPALITY, LOST, STOLEN, BURIED IN SNOW, OR DAMAGED.

Please note: Due to the ever-changing nature of our subscriber count and pickup routes, we cannot guarantee that your Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup will be completed at any particular time of day. Thank you in advance for your patience.

WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR COMPOST PICKUP SERVICES? Click here to check out our available plan options today!

ALREADY SIGNED UP WITH US? Click here to make changes to your payment information and/or or download a copy of an invoice. Please note that to cancel your services with us, you must manually contact us at www.GBCompost.com/Contact.

If this day is your next scheduled Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup Day, please remember to place your full/semi-full bucket(s), with lid(s) snapped securely on top, in a safe, easily accessible area of your property (which should have been agreed upon by both your business and Greener Bay Compost), by no later than 7:00 AM Central Standard Time (CST) on this day (or, if it is easier/more convenient for you, the night or day prior).

Failure to do so can result in your business being skipped until your next scheduled Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup day.

PLEASE DO NOT PLACE YOUR BUCKETS AT THE END OF A DRIVEWAY, NEAR THE CURB, OR TOO CLOSE TO YOUR TRASH BINS/DUMPSTERS, WHERE THEY MAY BE MISTAKEN FOR TRASH AND DISPOSED OF BY EITHER BY YOUR TRASH HAULER OR MUNICIPALITY, LOST, STOLEN, BURIED IN SNOW, OR DAMAGED.

Please note: Due to the ever-changing nature of our subscriber count and pickup routes, we cannot guarantee that your Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup will be completed at any particular time of day. Thank you in advance for your patience.

WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR COMPOST PICKUP SERVICES? Click here to check out our available plan options today!

ALREADY SIGNED UP WITH US? Click here to make changes to your payment information and/or or download a copy of an invoice. Please note that to cancel your services with us, you must manually contact us at www.GBCompost.com/Contact.

If this day is your next scheduled Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup Day, please remember to place your full/semi-full bucket(s), with lid(s) snapped securely on top, in a safe, easily accessible area of your property, such as on your front step/porch/patio, in front of your garage, or at the end of a walkway leading to your drive, by no later than 8:00 AM Central Standard Time (CST) on this day.

Failure to do so can result in your household being skipped until your next scheduled Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup day.

PLEASE DO NOT PLACE YOUR BUCKET(S) AT THE END OF YOUR DRIVEWAY OR NEAR THE CURB, WHERE IT/THEY MAY BE MISTAKEN FOR TRASH AND DISPOSED OF BY YOUR MUNICIPALITY, LOST, STOLEN, BURIED IN SNOW, OR DAMAGED.

Please note: Due to the ever-changing nature of our subscriber count and pickup routes, we cannot guarantee that your Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup will be completed at any particular time of day. Thank you in advance for your patience.

WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR COMPOST PICKUP SERVICES? Click here to check out our available plan options today!

ALREADY SIGNED UP WITH US? Click here to make changes to your payment information and/or or download a copy of an invoice. Please note that to cancel your services with us, you must manually contact us at www.GBCompost.com/Contact.

If this day is your next scheduled Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup Day, please remember to place your full/semi-full bucket(s), with lid(s) snapped securely on top, in a safe, easily accessible area of your property, such as on your front step/porch/patio, in front of your garage, or at the end of a walkway leading to your drive, by no later than 8:00 AM Central Standard Time (CST) on this day.

Failure to do so can result in your household being skipped until your next scheduled Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup day.

PLEASE DO NOT PLACE YOUR BUCKET(S) AT THE END OF YOUR DRIVEWAY OR NEAR THE CURB, WHERE IT/THEY MAY BE MISTAKEN FOR TRASH AND DISPOSED OF BY YOUR MUNICIPALITY, LOST, STOLEN, BURIED IN SNOW, OR DAMAGED.

Please note: Due to the ever-changing nature of our subscriber count and pickup routes, we cannot guarantee that your Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup will be completed at any particular time of day. Thank you in advance for your patience.

WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR COMPOST PICKUP SERVICES? Click here to check out our available plan options today!

ALREADY SIGNED UP WITH US? Click here to make changes to your payment information and/or or download a copy of an invoice. Please note that to cancel your services with us, you must manually contact us at www.GBCompost.com/Contact.

If this day is your next scheduled Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup Day, please remember to place your full/semi-full bucket(s), with lid(s) snapped securely on top, in a safe, easily accessible area of your property (which should have been agreed upon by both your business and Greener Bay Compost), by no later than 7:00 AM Central Standard Time (CST) on this day (or, if it is easier/more convenient for you, the night or day prior).

Failure to do so can result in your business being skipped until your next scheduled Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup day.

PLEASE DO NOT PLACE YOUR BUCKETS AT THE END OF A DRIVEWAY, NEAR THE CURB, OR TOO CLOSE TO YOUR TRASH BINS/DUMPSTERS, WHERE THEY MAY BE MISTAKEN FOR TRASH AND DISPOSED OF BY EITHER BY YOUR TRASH HAULER OR MUNICIPALITY, LOST, STOLEN, BURIED IN SNOW, OR DAMAGED.

Please note: Due to the ever-changing nature of our subscriber count and pickup routes, we cannot guarantee that your Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup will be completed at any particular time of day. Thank you in advance for your patience.

WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR COMPOST PICKUP SERVICES? Click here to check out our available plan options today!

ALREADY SIGNED UP WITH US? Click here to make changes to your payment information and/or or download a copy of an invoice. Please note that to cancel your services with us, you must manually contact us at www.GBCompost.com/Contact.

Greener Bay Compost founder Cory Groshek meets with the City of De Pere’s Sustainability Commission

Greener Bay Compost founder Cory Groshek was proud to meet with the City of De Pere’s Sustainability Commission, during their 1/9/2024 meeting, to further discuss a Public-Private Partnership between Greener Bay Compost and the City of De Pere.

This meeting may be viewed in full by clicking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrhAXSqz-f0, or by watching the video embedded below:

If you would like to cut directly to the part of the meeting where our founder is introduced, you can do so on YouTube at 1:40 into the video by clicking https://youtu.be/FrhAXSqz-f0?si=fK6nZrhNm-kRGLEI&t=1069, or by watching the video embedded below:

Significant improvements to our Waste Reduction Rewards Program, effective 8/1/2023

Effective 8/1/2023, we will be making one of the most significant improvements we have ever made to our Waste Reduction Rewards Program (which is just one of three rewards programs we offer to our Residential subscribers, which you can learn more about at www.GBCompost.com/Rewards).

Effective 8/1/2023, Residential subscribers pounds diverted from landfill, which we track publicly via the Greener Bay Compost Leaderboard at www.GBCompost.com/Leaderboard, will be converted to “Compost Points,” which can be redeemed (or “cashed in”) with us, in either 100 or 500 point increments, for bags of our finely sifted, premium compost (which, for those who don’t know, we sell year-round at www.GBCompost.com/Compost).

100 Points = (1) Gallon bag of compost

500 Points = (1) Cubic Foot bag of compost

(For reference, a cubic foot of compost is equivalent to just shy of six and a half gallons of compost)

Please note: As per our current Waste Reduction Rewards Program terms, we will provide Points to subscribers only in exchange for the contents of 100% contaminant-free buckets, on the basis of one Point per each qualifying pound. Simply put, contaminated bucket contents = no Compost Points (and so now may be a good time to review our List of Acceptable and Not Acceptable Materials, located at www.GBCompost.com/List).

We are able to make this improvement to our Waste Reduction Rewards Program in large part due to the fact that in our second year of existence (August 2022 to present), we more than doubled the volume of food waste (and other organics) we divert from landfill each week (thanks in large part to the massive amounts of waste we pick up each week from our Commercial subscribers, which include Glass Nickel Pizza, Kavarna Coffeehouse, Bellin Hospital & Psychiatric Center, and St. Vincent Hospital), compared to our first year (August 2021 to August 2022), as well as to the introduction of our Gallon-sized bags of compost this past November.

This is a very exciting development for us, because it enables a much larger percentage of our Residential subscribers to earn compost from us, in a much shorter period of time, so more of you can experience the awesomeness of our amazing soil amendment/plant superfood for yourselves (or gift it to your loved ones).

Once this improvement takes effect, the Leaderboard will be updated to reflect subscribers “Compost Points Accrued,” rather than “LBS. OF WASTE DIVERTED FROM LANDFILL SINCE 6/1/22”.

Assuming subscribers contact us to advise us they would like to redeem/”cash in” their Points, we will endeavor to distribute their earned compost to them, free of charge and as soon as possible, on one of their future Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup days.

Please note: Once the above-mentioned Leaderboard update is completed, subscribers will be expected to proactively visit the Leaderboard (www.GBCompost.com/Leaderboard) and to contact us, at their convenience, using any of the contact methods available at www.GBCompost.com/Contact, to advise us as to when/how they would like to redeem their Compost Points. Effective 8/1/2023, will no longer be sending individual emails to subscribers to notify them that they have “earned compost” (or accrued a certain number of Compost Points), with rare exception.

Please also note that our compost is, as always, subject to availability, which means we may or may not always have it available, in certain bag sizes, or at certain points in time. That said, we work very hard to ensure our compost is available year-round, in both Gallon and Cubic Foot bags, for both sale and as a reward for our subscribers, and will always do our best to fulfill any requests our subscribers may make to redeem/”cash in” their points (even if such requests are made in the middle of winter).

If you have any questions or concerns about the content of this announcement, please do not hesitate to contact us using any of the contact methods available at www.GBCompost.com/Contact.

Until next time, best wishes & happy composting!

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: We are moving to a Wait List based system with regard to our Residential Compost Pickup and Drop-Off Services

Due to overwhelming demand for our services, and effective immediately, we are moving to a Wait List based system with regard to our Residential Compost Pickup and Drop-Off Services.

What this means is that, going forward, we will not be accepting any new Residential subscribers, until/unless we lose a commensurate number of our existing Residential subscribers.

Pursuant to this decision, we have created a Residential Wait List individuals may sign up for, if they are interested in becoming a Residential subscriber of ours, which may be found by clicking on any of the “Subscribe Now” buttons at www.GBCompost.com/Residential. Should a spot for a new subscriber open up, we will offer said spot, via email, to whomever may be first in line on this Wait List.

What this means for our current Residential subscribers is that should they cancel and take leave of our service, whether it be for a short period of time (i.e.: a month or two) or long-term (i.e.: for years, or “permanently”), they will not necessarily be able to sign back up with us in the future, if/when they decide to return to us. Instead, they will need to sign up for our Wait List and wait to be notified by us of when we have an opening for a new subscriber.

Should anyone on our Wait List receive an offer to sign up with us, which will include a link to a page on this site where they can do so, and assuming we are able to service their location, they will have 48 hours to sign up with us. If they do not sign up within this time frame, they will receive an email from us notifying them that they have been removed from the Wait List, but that they may choose to re-sign-up for the Wait List at any time.

Thank you to all of our Residential and Commercial subscribers who have enabled us to grow to the point where a Wait List has become a necessity for us. We appreciate your support and look forward to serving you in the months (and hopefully) years ahead!

If you have any questions about our Wait List, you may contact us using any of the contact methods available at www.GBCompost.com/Contact.

Changes to our service pricing, effective June 1st, 2023

Effective June 1st, 2023, the prices of our Residential Compost Pickup and Drop-Off Services will be updated as follows:

To summarize: The price of our Once-a-Month and 1x/Month services is not changing and will remain $15/month, while the price of our Every-Other-Week and 2x/Month services will be changing to $25/month.

Additionally, the price of a “Special, One-Time Bucket Swap” (an option which is rarely used by our subscribers) will be changing from $10 per swap to $12.50 per swap.

Our “Add-a-Bucket” price is not changing and will remain $12.50 per month, per bucket. Also, our “Make-Up Swap” price is not changing and will remain $6.50 per swap.

As a reminder: Our subscribers are allowed to upgrade or downgrade their service (for example, from Once-a-Month to Every-Other-Week service, or vice versa) at any time.

The above-mentioned changes will take effect automatically and be reflected in the amount you are charged on your subscription renewal date in June of this year, whenever it may be. Accordingly, there is nothing you need to do with regard to these changes.

If you have any questions about these changes, you may contact us using any of the contact methods available at www.GBCompost.com/Contact.

Thank you for your continued support of our one-of-a-kind company, the only food-waste-focused composting facility in our area, and all the communities we serve. We and our planet very much appreciate it!

Until next time, best wishes and happy composting.

Ban on materials provided to us outside of our buckets (with the exception of pizza boxes) to take effect Monday, April 3rd, 2023

Effective Monday, April 3rd, 2023, we will no longer be accepting any materials provided to us outside of our buckets, regardless of whether they are on the Acceptable side of our List of Acceptable and Not Acceptable Materials at www.GBCompost.com/List), with the exception of pizza boxes (which subscribers may continue to provide to us in unlimited numbers and simply set beside their buckets for us on Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup days).

PLEASE NOTE: This update should not be interpreted to mean that we no longer accept the plain/matte paper or Fall leaves listed as Acceptable on our current List of Acceptable and Not Acceptable Materials, but rather that we will only accept these materials inside our buckets going forward.

Additionally (and in conjunction with the above update), going forward, Residential and Commercial subscribers of ours will only receive weight-based credit on our Leaderboard (www.GBCompost.com/Leaderboard) and under our Waste Reduction Rewards Program (www.GBCompost.com/Rewards) for materials provided to us inside our buckets.

What this means is that while subscribers may provide pizza boxes to us outside of our buckets (and while we encourage them to do so, as most pizza boxes are not recyclable, due to being food-soiled), we will not be providing weight-based credit to our subscribers for them (assuming we receive them after 4/2/2023), unless they are provided to us inside our buckets (which will likely require them to be cut or torn into pieces small enough to fit inside said buckets).

Please note that if we arrive to perform a Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup for any subscriber on or after April 3rd, 2023 and find any materials other than pizza boxes left for us outside of our buckets, such materials will be left on the subscribers property, without further explanation.

This update to our policies is being made in furtherance of our plans to streamline/simplify our services and optimize our business as much as possible.

Any subscribers concerned about whether this update will result in their Greener Bay Compost buckets being filled faster than usual are hereby reminded that:

• Once-a-Month Residential subscribers have the option of upgrading to an Every-Other-Week/2x-a-Month Bucket Swap schedule with us at any time
• Every-Other-Week/2x-a-Month Residential subscribers and Commercial subscribers have the option of subscribing for extra buckets with us at any time (with no limit on the number of extra buckets they can subscribe for)

If you are interested in upgrading your current service with us to receive more Bucket Swaps/Compost Pickups each month, or in subscribing for extra buckets with us, please contact us at www.GBCompost.com/Contact at your earliest convenience and we will make your service change as easy as possible.

If you have any questions or concerns about the information/updates above, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are always here to help!

Until next time, best wishes and happy composting!