Greener Bay Compost – The Crown Jewel of Composting in Northeastern Wisconsin.

The Crown Jewel of Composting in Northeastern Wisconsin.
We are 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 food-waste-focused, commercial compost facility, and year-round sales of our nutrient-rich, contaminant-free compost!

Now accepting new Residential and Commercial/Business Subscribers in both the Green Bay and Appleton areas!

HIGHLY RATED BY THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE

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Are you a resident of the City of De Pere?

You may be eligible to have the City of De Pere cover HALF the cost of your Residential service with us!
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We are currently composting/recycling food waste and associated organics for some of the biggest, best, and most sustainably-minded organizations in the Greater Green Bay area, including three Emplify Healthh/Bellin Health facilities, Kavarna Coffeehouse, La Carreta, and the Unified School District of De Pere.

We are also selling our nutrient-rich, contaminant-free compost year-round and direct-to-consumer at www.GBCompost.com/Compost, as well as through several local retailers, including Soul Purpose in the Bay Park Square Mall, the Trellis Gift Shop at the Green Bay Botanical Garden, and Country Visions Cooperative in De Pere.

ALL-TIME ORGANICS DIVERTED FROM LANDFILL

327,252.78 lbs.

If you want to compost at home in the Green Bay or Appleton areas (in the easiest, cleanest, most convenient way possible!), start a composting, food scraps recycling, and/or food waste reduction program at your business, organization, or school in the Green Bay area (and get the great, green “P.R.” you deserve for doing so!), or get the most nutrient-rich, contaminant-free compost (in 1/4″ Screened and/or Unscreened) for your lawn, garden, houseplants, flower beds, trees/shrubs, etc., then you’ve come to the right place!

Each week at Greener Bay Compost, 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 food-waste-focused, commercial compost facility, where we upcycle them, over the course of several months, into a nutrient-rich soil amendment known as compost, which we make available for sale to the general public, year-round.

According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) 2020-2021 statewide waste characterization study, almost a quarter of what ends up in our local landfills is food waste (including both edible and inedible food). As if that isn’t shocking enough, that food waste then accounts, per the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for over half of the methane (a toxic greenhouse gas that is up to 30%+ more potent than carbon dioxide) produced by our landfills, an extremely large amount of which is not captured, as it should be, but rather released into our environment (per a 2024 Harvard study, which found that the U.S. EPA has underestimated methane emissions from U.S. landfills by 51%).

Greener Bay Compost exists to do something better with this food waste, which is compost it, to create a cleaner, greener future for everyone in Northeastern Wisconsin and beyond!

SO HOW DO THESE COMPOST PICKUP SERVICES WORK?
It’s actually very simple!

STEP ONE	STEP TWO	STEP THREE
We provide you with clean, Food Safe, five gallon buckets (with lids), with BPI-certified compostable liners inside.	You place any materials found on the Acceptable side of our List of Acceptable and Not Acceptable Materials for Composting inside your buckets.	You place your full/semi-full buckets in an acceptable/agreed-upon Bucket Swap location, and we swap them out for new, clean buckets weekly, every other week, or every four weeks, depending upon which of our services you’ve signed up for.

7 OF THE BEST REASONS TO COMPOST WITH US:

A desire to divert your food scraps and associated organics from our local landfills (thus saving everyone in our community taxpayer money, delaying the need for our Counties to build yet another new landfill in the near future, and preventing the release of toxic methane into our environment)
A desire to be a superior steward of the Earth and an amazing role model to your loved ones (particularly any children and/or grandchildren in your life).
A desire to avoid having to do all the “hard, dirty, and sometimes smelly” work of composting, while still experiencing all the social and emotional benefits of it.
A desire to get an amazing discount on our nutrient-rich, contaminant-free compost for you or your loved ones’ lawns, gardens, trees, houseplants, farms, etc.
A desire to save money by identifying where most of your food is wasted and cut down on the amount of trash you produce, by up to 50% or more
A desire to support the only food-waste-focused compost facility serving the Green Bay and Appleton areas
A desire to support a small, local, family-run business doing big things to make our a community a better, more sustainable place to live, work, and play

THE MAJOR BENEFITS OF COMPOSTING:

Reduces methane (a potent greenhouse gas) emissions from landfills.
Upcycles what would have been waste into a valuable soil amendment.
Sequesters carbon from our atmosphere, thereby lowering our collective carbon footprint.
Enriches soil, via the addition of organic matter and nutrients, which results in better looking, better tasting food and reduces the need for chemical fertilizers.
Helps soil retain moisture, which results in less need to water plants.
Reduces soil erosion by improving soil structure.
Encourages the production of beneficial bacteria and fungi in our soil.

Upcoming Events

Commercial Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup Day | July 15, 2025

Start on: 7:00 AM

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 […]