Greener Bay Compost

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"One problem is that most people don’t realize collecting food waste and creating compost are actually two different things. Though a city like New York now has separate bins for individuals and businesses to throw out their leftover food and yard waste, most of it doesn’t actually go to making compost — a process that requires processing the waste at specific temperatures in order to activate microbes that will break down the organic matter into soil. The resulting nutrient-rich mixture can then be applied to fields and urban gardens to nurture crops, keeping carbon locked in the soil instead of being released into the atmosphere and avoiding extra emissions from nitrogen-based fertilizers.

Instead, the majority of organic matter collected by New York City’s Department of Sanitation through its official curbside “composting” program is actually turned into “bio-gas”, which is then burned to produce energy. While this process takes food waste out of landfills and avoids methane emissions, burning bio-gas still releases greenhouse gases.

This is largely a pitfall of large-scale, municipal systems that are attempting to take in so much food waste that they don’t have a market for the compost that would be produced, or don’t have the facilities necessary to produce it, said Gina Talt, a sustainability researcher at Princeton University. Talt oversees several projects at the Sustainable Composting Research at Princeton (S.C.R.A.P.) Lab, which aims to understand how compost can be managed more effectively and sustainably."

Do You Know Where the Compost Goes? As municipal composting expands around the country, practitioners worry it’s not being done in a way that will benefit farmers.

"...although more people than ever are composting, all of that waste isn’t necessarily reaching farmers. Even as California and New York City have begun implementing mandatory composting laws in recent years, questions have been raised about the quality of the compost produced and whether it’s going back to the soil or to other uses, such as energy.

Additionally, now that more people are recognizing that composting is important, composting experts and researchers say, the focus of many large-scale composting programs should turn to ensuring not just that people compost, but that they do it right. In a worst-case scenario, they fear composting becoming a form of greenwashing, the way recycling has — a feel-good activity that masks larger underlying issues with our food and waste systems which are not being addressed."

Do You Know Where the Compost Goes? As municipal composting expands around the country, practitioners worry it’s not being done in a way that will benefit farmers.

Another exposed for fraudulently claiming Biodegradable Products Institute Compostable Certification, this time on Amazon.com! 🚔 👮‍♂️ 🚨 ⚖️

Shame on you, ! 😠 (More like BioFAKEware!)

*** Much respect to Louis Mennel of Carbon Compost for bringing this matter to our Founder's attention, so he could act immediately. ***

Louis confirmed, via direct contact with 's certification department that not only has Biotakeware NOT gotten the cups pictured in this post certified by BPI, but they've actually gotten ZERO of their products certified!

To be clear, extreme fraud of this nature hurts a LOT of people: The Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) and their reputation, Community Composters like Greener Bay Compost and Carbon Compost (who DEPEND on BPI marks on products to know that they are TRULY COMPOSTABLE, and whose compost quality depends on NOT accepting FAKE COMPOSTABLE CUPS from scammy companies like Biotakeware), and sustainability-minded consumers worldwide, who buy cups from scammers like Biotakeware, under the false impression that they're more environmentally-friendly than they truly are.

FBI - Milwaukee , you really need to have your fraud division look into this, or your partners in the State Biotakeware is based out of. This is fraud in interstate commerce!

In the meantime, our Founder has left a 1 Star Review of Biotakeware on Amazon alongside Louis, as well as reported this matter directly to Amazon, which has agreed to escalate the issue, and outed Biotakeware publicly in an Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) Community Composting group both he and Louis are members of.

You messed with the wrong composters, BioFAKEware! ✊️

Raise your hand if you love the smell of actinomycetes. ✋️ 😎

Our Founder had the distinct pleasure of meeting fellow entrepreneur, Jamie, the owner of Canine In The Ruff Mobile Pet Grooming yesterday, and would like to recommend her wonderful services to all of the parents of fur babies out there who may appreciate convenient pet grooming that comes right to your house! 🐕 🐈 ❤️

A look at Greener Bay Compost's bucket screening and "compost lasagna"-making setup at our commercial, food-waste-focused facility (the only one of its kind serving Northeastern Wisconsin!), the construction and maintenance of which was/is only possible with the support of our beloved Residential and Commercial Compost Pickup Service subscribers (www.GBCompost.com/Services) and everyone who buys our nutrient-rich, contaminant-free compost (www.GBCompost.com/Compost)! 👀

In this photo, you can see our purpose-built workshop, our buckets (including one with a lid atop it, upon which we have set aside a pair of stickered banana peels, for notifying/educating one of our subscribers about removing the stickers from), our gray bin we store pine shavings in, the 17-gallon totes we combine screened bucket contents with pine shavings inside of (to produce the aforementioned "compost lasagna," for later depositing onto our world-class compost pad, in the form of big, long, ever-growing/centipede-like piles known as windrows), and stacks of said totes stacked near our garage door for taking outside later.

This facility was intentionally designed and built, from the ground up, to make our continued provision of our Award-Winning, one-of-a-kind Compost Pickup Services possible, by enabling us to perform our bucket screening, cleaning, and rebuilding duties possible, even when it is 20 below zero or 90 degrees Fahrenheit outside (in other words, year-round)!

*** Very few Community Composting organizations have a facility like this, because they are not as heavily invested in the success of their organizations as we are into ours. ***

For those who don't know, our Founder and his wife don't rent the nearly-seven-acre property our compost facility exists on--they purchased it, out of their own pockets, in May of 2022, so that almost everyone in the Green Bay and Fox Cities areas, who want to compost their food waste but can't or don't want to do the hard, dirty, sometimes smelly, and often dangerous work themselves, can have an easy, clean, convenient way to compost at home.

Visit www.GBCompost.com to sign up with us today, so we can keep growing/expanding, please!