Bay View Bash Quick Info!
Lots of fun information about the Bay View Bash coming up September 21 – the link to our main page is here [or www.kompostkids.org/bvb], and these are the quick links: 2019 Press Release Donate to Support Trash Heroes Here Funded Green Team Volunteer Info Individual Volunteer Sign-Up (No Teams) MKE No Waste MKENoWaste Stats and Infographics Win our #MKENoWaste Contest Near Zero-Waste Education Opportunity Volunteers
Volunteer Composting — A TON of Fun
As Milwaukeeans, we love our street fests. As compost and sustainability experts, it’s a little tough to see all those corncobs and plastic beer cups in a garbage can headed to a landfill. On September 21, 2019, we’re partnering with the amazing Bay View Bash team and Blue Ribbon Organics to change the way neighborhood festivals can think through their “waste” stream. After all,
KOMPOSTER Green Teams Needed, Earn Funds!
Be a KOMPOSTER Trash Hero and earn funds! Back by popular demand, we’re recruiting KOMPOSTER Teams to earn funds for hand-sorting Bay View Bash food and drink items from festival receptacles (garbage, recyclable, and compostable bins) to reclaim what should not go to a landfill. The 2019 Bay View Bash is on Saturday, September 21st & additional teams are needed on Sunday, September 22nd. Loads
Make Dirt, Not Trash: Volunteers Make It Possible
An article series by Kompost Kids and Milwaukee Area Science Advocates Welcome to the #MakeDirtNotTrash series which describes the efforts of Kompost Kids, Milwaukee Area Science advocates (MASA), and the Bay View Bash moving towards an all-volunteer, near-zero–waste street festival. Check out the previous articles: The Bay View Bash Keeps Trash Out of the Landfill and Our Roots. Volunteers make it possible for us
Save the Dates, Upcoming Events
As we shake of the sluggishness of winter, the Kompost Kids are gearing up for an active spring. Come join us for compost turnings, tabling events, and community outreach. Our sites are thawed out and warming up, and as usual, there’s a lot of maintenance and tidying to do. Four exciting events in April. April 16 – Compost Turning and Education in River West
Welcome New Board Members
The Kompost Kids organization is lucky and grateful to be welcoming two excellent and accomplished board members to our leadership team. Both will leverage their academic backgrounds, professional expertise, and personal commitment to our tireless cause of organics diversion, local disposal, and community education in Milwaukee and beyond. Renee Scampini is a Milwaukee native and current UW-Milwaukee Urban Studies Ph.D. student with a background
Bay View Bash Diverts Literally a Ton
Let us take this belated opportunity to extend a ton-size thank you to all our awesome volunteers who made this year’s Bay View Bash a smashing success. We diverted over 2,020 pounds of organics from the all-day street festival, more than doubling last year’s yield. We couldn’t have done it without the intrepid people power – both stalwart regulars and promising new recruits from Rufus
Bay View Bash Approaches
We’d just like to put an early word out that we’ll be wrangling every last possible volunteer for this year’s Bay View Bash, in which Kompost Kids play the illustrious role of managing the waste stream, maximizing sustainability, and offering characteristic good humor as we pick through gooey festival trash in search of the black gold potentialities that lie within – too often untapped –
Our New Demo Site
We are up and running at our new demonstration site located at 1980 S. Marina Drive in Bay View and would like to extend a hearty “thank you” to all our amazing volunteers who made it out for our May 24 work day and bin raising. We built a shed, assembled two sets of compost bins, constructed, laid out, and filled an array of
We’re Moving!
At long last, after many months of anticipation, we’ve secured a lease on a city-owned parcel of land in Bay View, where our new Demonstration Site will be built out in the course of the next few months. There’s a lot to do, but the site is rapidly transforming into a new, semi-permanent home for our organization, lending us the stability and space we