We started Bennett Compost ten years ago with $100 and a dream to make composting easy for people in the city.  Since then, we've grown to a company of 10 employees, and compost the food waste and organics for over 3000 households and businesses in the Philadelphia area.  Our goal since day one - to give Philadelphians the option to compost, even in the city! The average person throws out over 1600 lbs of "garbage" each year. Our composters throw out half of that. 

Food and landfills don't mix.  Food scraps emit greenhouse gasses when they're sent to the city dump and left to rot.  According to the UN, over 30% of the food we grow winds up in landfills, contributing to over 8% of greenhouse gas emissions each year.  

We keep these organics out of landfills and recycle them into compost just as nature intended, using traditional methods and aerated static piles.  This approach drastically reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and creates garden-ready compost in 90 days with the help of our microbe and worm friends!

Winning this grant would allow us to get another compost site up and running before the end of the year. The money would allow us to purchase blowers and timers to set up new aerated static piles and build additional worm bins. These steps would allow us to continue accepting additional material and diverting more waste from landfills.