Who We Are

Greener Bay Compost is Northeastern Wisconsin’s premier compost company, serving the Green Bay and Appleton areas with our Award-Winning Residential and Commercial Compost Pickup Services, our area’s only commercial, 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, 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 does not produce 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 bag and sell it, in 1/4″ Screened and Unscreened versions, for lawns, gardens, flower beds, houseplants, etc.

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Our Impact

As of the time of this writing, we have well over 200 Residential subscribers, plus several Commercial Subscribers, have produced and sold/distributed tons of our nutrient-rich, contaminant-free 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 approximately 370,000 pounds (185 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 Northeastern Wisconsin).

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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