Greener Bay Compost – Food Scraps and Organics Recycling Made Simple.

Food Scraps and Organics Recycling Made Simple.
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 compost facility, and year-round sales of our nutrient-rich, contaminant-free compost!

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Currently composting for some of the biggest, best, and most sustainably-minded organizations in the Greater Green Bay area, including three Bellin Health facilities, Glass Nickel Pizza of Green Bay, Kavarna Coffeehouse, La Carreta, and the Unified School District of De Pere.

With our nutrient-rich, contaminant-free compost available directly from us or from several local retailers, including Soul Purpose in the Bay Park Square Mall and the Trellis Gift Shop at the Green Bay Botanical Garden.

ALL-TIME ORGANICS DIVERTED FROM LANDFILL

302,826.98 lbs.

If you want to learn how to compost at home in the Green Bay or Appleton areas, how to start a composting/food waste reduction or recycling program at your business/organization in the Green Bay area, or where to find nutrient-rich, contaminant-free compost (1/4″ screened and/or unscreened) for sale in Northeastern Wisconsin, then you’ve come to the right place!

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 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, and be the change you want to see in your community, then look no further!

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 food-waste-focused 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 DNR’s (Department of Natural Resources) 2020-2021 statewide waste characterization study, approximately half of what ends up in our landfills is (or could have been, at some point) compostable, with almost half of that being made up of food waste, and we find that to be unacceptable, hence why we do what we do.

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

STEP ONE	STEP TWO	STEP THREE	STEP FOUR
We provide you with clean, Food Safe, five gallon buckets (with lids), with BPI-certified compostable liners inside.	You remove your bucket lids, revealing wood shavings at the bottom of your buckets (to help control odor and absorb moisture.)	You place any materials we consider Acceptable 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

RESIDENTIAL BUCKET SWAP/COMPOST PICKUP DAY | APRIL 27, 2025

Start on: 8:00 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 […]