Greener Bay Compost

Did you know? Each week at Greener Bay Compost, we fill upwards of 40 or more 17 gallon totes, like those pictured here, with enormous amounts of our Compost Pickup Service subscribers' (www.GBCompost.com/Services) food waste/scraps and associated , mixed with premium pine shavings supplied by us, so we can deposit their contents, manually, onto the compost pad at our Commercial, -Focused Facility (www.GBCompost.com/Facility).

There is no special machinery that can dump out the contents of these totes, which can weigh up to 100 pounds or more apiece (particularly when they're filled with watermelon in the summertime! 🍉). This means our staff needs to manually lift and dump out the contents of every single one of these totes every single week--to the tune of well over a TON of wet, heavy food waste per week!--onto/into our windrows (long compost piles). 💪

In addition to all the bacteria, viruses, mold, fungi, potentially sharp (like knives!), biting insects and wild critters, and inclement weather we are exposed to year-round, this unavoidable, manual labor (which some would rightfully call "backbreaking"!) we must engage in each week is a big reason for why our Award-Winning, one-of-a-kind Services (which could be rightfully called services, because we make composting so easy, clean, convenient, and SAFE for our subscribers) cost what they cost.

We see a lot of our fellow composters, including many in Wisconsin, essentially running slave plantations, where the owners themselves are the slaves, doing work just as laborious and dangerous as ours, and charging next to nothing, or worse, literally nothing, for their valuable services.

These other composters are not running businesses. They are engaging in a very expense, time-consuming, and dangerous hobby that will eventually put them in the hospital, or worse.

Having said that, we don't want to ever hear anyone say our Services are "expensive" (compared to what?), when they have no clue what it takes to run a service such as ours (the only one of its kind in Northeastern Wisconsin!) or what our expenses are, and have no idea the danger we subject ourselves to every week, to stay in business.

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We process HUNDREDS of buckets each week, by the way, many of which are as moldy or moldier than this.

Something most people, including our Compost Pickup Service subscribers, do not know is just how disgusting, dirty, and/or dangerous our subscribers' Greener Bay Compost buckets can become, after just two to four weeks of food waste/scraps and other organics rotting inside of them, and what it actually takes for us to clean these buckets, so they can SAFELY be put back into circulation each week.

What you see in this photo is one of our buckets with black mold inside of it. ⚠️

It only takes a week, in some cases, for mold colonies like this to grow inside of a bucket full of wet, putresible waste, and it is something our subscribers likely never see, because we are the ones who dump out the contents of their buckets and see (and ultimately have to deal with) what the compostable bags we line our buckets with have been hiding from them. 👀

For those who don't know, we pressure wash every subscriber bucket we process with hot water and, if necessary, scrub these buckets with a brush and soapy water (or, in extreme cases, Goo Gone), prior to giving them a diluted vinegar-water bath to sanitize them as best as we can, before we air-dry them on steel drying racks for weekly redistribution to our subscribers. 🚿 🧼 🪣

When we spray the insides of buckets filled with mold, like the one pictured here, mold spores go airborne, and our staff undoubtedly gets exposed to these spores (including breathing them in). 🤧

This is a workplace hazard that, unfortunately, there isn't much we can do about, because one cannot wear KN95 masks to do this work, because they would get soaking wet, or plastic face shields, as such shields fog up and render our staff unable to see. 🙇‍♂️

This is a big reason why our services cost what they cost (i.e.: why we don't and can't work for free or cheap) and why there are so few companies doing what we do (that is, providing the caliber of luxury/"white glove" service we provide all of our subscribers): Simply put, it is labor-intensive, time-consuming, dangerous, and expensive work to do.

Don't even get us started on all the bacteria, viruses, fungus, maggots, and biting flies we are exposed to every week (which are far worse in summer)!

Something most people, including our Compost Pickup Service subscribers, do not know is just how disgusting, dirty, and/or dangerous our subscribers' Greener Bay Compost buckets can become, after just two to four weeks of food waste/scraps and other organics rotting inside of them, and what it actually takes for us to clean these buckets, so they can SAFELY be put back into circulation each week.

What you see in this photo is one of our buckets with black mold inside of it. ⚠️

It only takes a week, in some cases, for mold colonies like this to grow inside of a bucket full of wet, putresible waste, and it is something our subscribers likely never see, because we are the ones who dump out the contents of their buckets and see (and ultimately have to deal with) what the compostable bags we line our buckets with have been hiding from them. 👀

For those who don't know, we pressure wash every subscriber bucket we process with hot water and, if necessary, scrub these buckets with a brush and soapy water (or, in extreme cases, Goo Gone), prior to giving them a diluted vinegar-water bath to sanitize them as best as we can, before we air-dry them on steel drying racks for weekly redistribution to our subscribers. 🚿 🧼 🪣

When we spray the insides of buckets filled with mold, like the one pictured here, mold spores go airborne, and our staff undoubtedly gets exposed to these spores (including breathing them in). 🤧

This is a workplace hazard that, unfortunately, there isn't much we can do about, because one cannot wear KN95 masks to do this work, because they would get soaking wet, or plastic face shields, as such shields fog up and render our staff unable to see. 🙇‍♂️

This is a big reason why our services cost what they cost (i.e.: why we don't and can't work for free or cheap) and why there are so few companies doing what we do (that is, providing the caliber of luxury/"white glove" service we provide all of our subscribers): Simply put, it is labor-intensive, time-consuming, dangerous, and expensive work to do.

Don't even get us started on all the bacteria, viruses, fungus, maggots, and biting flies we are exposed to every week (which are far worse in summer)!

Excellent news for both the health of all Americans AND the quality of compost made from food waste.

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