Dayenu Composting Pilot

Reducing our waste - especially plastic and food - is one way we can live our commitment to healing the earth. Since our garbage is burned at an incinerator in Newark, reducing our waste also helps with local air pollution. BK members Izzy Schwartz and Malka Bogorad-Weitzman conducted a waste audit and found that, if we start composting, BK can reduce its garbage by 50%. Want to help?

We have partnered with Java Compost for a commercial composting program. For $20 per month, participating households will receive a five-gallon collection bucket, a three month supply of liner bags, and instructions from Java on the wide range of items that can be composted.  

Java’s commercial recycling operation allows for a wider range of compostable materials than can be processed in a home composting system. Dairy products, meat, meat and fish bones, compostable plastic and paper food containers, dinner ware, napkins and paper towels are all compostable in this program; all of which cannot be composted in home compost solutions. Not only can you compost more with this program, it is also cost-effective. (Java residential pickup costs more at $52 every 4 weeks for weekly pickup or $32 every 4 weeks for biweekly pickup.)

Composting is one small, easy-to-do contribution we can make as a community to repair the world. 

Questions? Contact Mark Bograd or call the office at 973-746-4889

Join the program by signing up here. We'll be in touch to get you set up!