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Private composting firm pitches kiosks, downtown restaurant program and school partnerships to Middleton committee
Summary
GreenBox, a Sun Prairie‑based composting company, presented three models — downtown restaurant outreach, smartphone‑enabled drop‑off kiosks, and subsidized curbside swap service — and discussed metrics, contamination controls and potential coordination with a Dane County USDA grant that includes a planned Middleton kiosk.
Ben, founder of GreenBox, told the Middleton Sustainability Committee that his company now serves about 900 residential customers and 40 businesses across the Madison area and diverts roughly 10 tons of food waste a week from landfills.
"We now divert about 10 tons of food scraps a week, from the landfill," Ben said, describing GreenBox’s service area and scale. He said roughly 50 residential members are in Middleton and that commercial partners include Epic and Exact Sciences.
GreenBox outlined three program models for Middleton: targeted downtown restaurant outreach to capture high‑volume point sources; smartphone‑enabled, lockable drop‑off kiosks that require a short onboarding step to reduce contamination; and…
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