UPDATE: We are discontinuing our Weekly Curbside Compost Pickup Service plans

After much thoughtful consideration, we have decided to cease offering our Weekly Curbside Compost Pickup Service plans to new subscribers, effective immediately, and to discontinue offering the same to existing subscribers on such plans as soon as possible.

Please note that we will continue to offer two Every-Other-Week plans (a Month-to-Month version, as well as a discounted, 6–Months–Paid–in–Full version), in addition to an “Add a Bucket” option for an extra $10/month (which requires a separate subscription) and a “Special, One-Time Pickup” service for a one-time charge of $7.50, for the sake of providing flexibility to our subscribers whose households may produce more waste each week than an average household.

We have a few reasons for discontinuing our Weekly plans:

1. Out of the (118) subscribers we now serve, only (10) are on our Weekly plans, which means the demand for our Weekly plans is extremely low.
2. Out of the (10) subscribers we currently have on Weekly plans (including your household), we have determined that only about 20% of these subscribers actually need to be on something like a Weekly plan, based on the average poundage of the buckets we pick up from them each week, which means they are paying for more pickups than they really need.
3. Us transitioning to only doing Every-Other-Week pickups will help make our routes shorter and more efficient (thus saving us both time and money), as well as pave the way for us to make further changes to our routes in late summer of 2022, so that we will no longer be driving routes every week (as we’ve been doing since our inception in August 2021), but rather every other week (which will massively improve the Work/Life Balance of our team members).

So what does all of this mean for you?

Any subscribers whose Weekly, 6–Months–Paid–in–Full plans were, until today, set to automatically renew at $162/every six months will, instead, automatically transition to an Every-Other-Week, 6–Months–Paid–in–Full plan at $81/every six months on their next renewal date.

If you are a subscriber who feels that a Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup performed for you just once every other week is not sufficient to account for the amount of waste your household produces each week, then please now that there are a couple options we have to offer to help you work around this concern.

First, you could consider signing up for our “Add a Bucket” option, in conjunction with your new, Every-Other-Week plan plan, which would see you receive not one, but two Greener Bay Compost buckets on each of your scheduled Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup days.

The nice thing about the above option is you can cancel at any time, if, for any reason, you determine or realize that your household does not produce enough waste each week to justify two buckets.

Second, you could pay a one-time charge of $7.50 for a “Special, One-Time Pickup” of your Greener Bay Compost bucket (which, of course, includes a Bucket Swap) on a week when you would otherwise not be having a Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup performed for you, on an as-needed basis.

Finally, you could simply do like many of our subscribers do (and which we do allow them to do, by the way), for in the event that your household produces more waste than you can comfortably or reasonably fit in a single Greener Bay Compost bucket, and put any extra dry waste (such as paper, cardboard, etc.) you may have in a separate paper bag or unscented plastic bag beside your bucket, or any extra wet waste (such as food scraps, coffee grounds, etc.) you may have in a separate, unscented plastic bag beside your bucket, or both on your scheduled Bucket Swap/Compost Pickup days.

Please note: We don’t have any limit on how many extra “dry” or “wet” bags you can set beside your buckets.

If you need to discuss the above options with us in more detail, or if you have any questions or concerns about this update in general, you are welcome (and encouraged) to contact us using any of the contact methods available at www.GBCompost.com/Contact, otherwise you will simply be transitioned to the Every-Other-Week version of our plans which is closest to the plan you are currently on, as soon as your current plan expires, as indicated earlier.

Thank you, as always, for helping us make Green Bay a little greener every day, and happy composting!