Bennett Compost

We keep food out of landfills, and recycle it into compost! Get your + 1st month FREE on our website!
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11/03/2026

We cut thousands from the school district’s trash bill, but the real win is putting high schoolers in the driver’s seat. 🚜

At W.B. Saul, cafeteria leftovers don’t end up in a dumpster - they get turned into rich compost right across the street!

Bennett Compost co-owner Jennifer Mastalerz leads this program on the ground, mentoring student interns like Anthony.

Under Jenn’s guidance, students learn to operate heavy machinery safely, troubleshoot solar-powered systems, and take pride in the skills they develop.

When the compost is ready, it goes straight back into Saul’s soil to grow fall crops like Swiss chard.

Real savings for Philly schools, and invaluable experience for the next generation. 🌱

Learn more about the work we’re doing with the community to keep food waste out of landfills, and recycle it into compost! 👉 Bennett Compost

10/30/2026

We love fall when the air gets crisp and leaves start to change... 🍂 We also love how much you can compost in fall, including:

🎃 Pumpkins + gourds
🍂 Fall leaves
🧑‍🌾 Garden cleanup (no diseased plants, please)
🦃 Thanksgiving leftovers - including meat and bones
💐 Cut flowers, and other natural decor
🎄 Wreaths, swags, and Christmas Trees!

Composting is something we can all do to make a big difference. The average person throws out over 1600 lbs of “garbage” every year. Our composters throw out half that, and often less.

Try our weekly pickup service and get your first month free! 👉 Bennett Compost

📸 x Jenny Lynn

10/21/2026

Get FREE compost 11/7 at WB Saul High School for Agricultural Sciences! 👉 Scroll for details.

WB Saul is our city’s environmental high school, and has a full working farm on site, including a composting program and internship we help run!

Stay tuned this week for a visit to Saul with Jen Mastalerz!

10/18/2026

Over a billion pounds of pumpkins wind up in landfills every year after 👎😬 We have a better plan: compost them with us!

Add your crushed jack-o-lantern pieces to your bucket, or put your pumpkin on top of your on your pickup day.

Have a LOT of pumpkins? Give us a haul to schedule a pickup!

The most sustainable holiday decor is grown, not manufactured - if you compost it afterwards! We make it easy, even if you live in an apartment.

Learn more and start composting with us for free via link in bio! 👉 Bennett Compost

📸 x Jenny Lynn

10/12/2026

Welcome to Rat-Toberfest! 🐀🍻🥨 Not the fall festival and of us asked for. Philly City Council just called for an urgent response to rat infestations in the Lower Northeast. It’s a serious issue across the city, and we want to talk about what we can do to help.

So, this month, we’re putting rats on the agenda. We’ll be talking about rats, food scraps, common misconceptions, and practical ways we can all make our blocks less inviting to our least favorite neighbors.

Kick off the week with our Teach In with Trash Academy, happening now! 👉 Link in bio 👉 Bennett Compost

10/12/2026

Just a few hours until tonight's teach in with Trash Academy! 🎉 It's not too late to join us, get on the zoom call here: 👉 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-waste-to-zero-waste-composting-to-end-residential-dumping-tickets-2002826892149?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

10/07/2026

Over a billion pounds of pumpkins wind up in landfills every year after . 👎 We give your pumpkins a second life as the compost that nourishes our community’s gardens, parks and green spaces. 🎃

Learn more about our weekly compost pickup and start composting free! 👉 Bennett Compost

We take your pumpkins back to our yard, where they’re combined with leaves, wood chips, and other organics. We force air through each pile, then let the microbes handle the rest. In 60-90 days, your food waste is gone, and what’s left in its place is compost.

Pumpkins and landfills don’t mix 🚫🎃 Materials in landfills are packed together and break down without oxygen, which releases methane, a powerful greenhouse gas responsible for short term global warming. Composting is an alternative that’s turns waste into wealth, while also not polluting.

You can put your pumpkins on top of your bucket for pickup, or smash your pumpkins and put the pieces in your bucket.

The difference composting makes adds up - fast. This is one of countless runs we made last year from homes and community events.

Carving your pumpkin is best for composting! Compost the pulp and seeds, or keep the seeds and toast for a healthy snack.

Note: please remove spray paints and enamel paints from pumpkins before composting.

Stay tuned for community pumpkin smashes, like this one at The Spring Gardens!

Smashing pumpkins is not only fun - it’s also great prep for composting!

Hey Gritty 🎃 Share your best jack-o-lanterns designs with us! Before you compost!

Happy composting! 🎃🦇🕸️

10/03/2026

Finally, fall 🍂 Bring your bucket - or mini bucket - with you on your fall adventures! Our countertop bucket is rugged enough to go on the road, and comes with a handle and snap on lid that's airtight! $20, comes with free delivery in Philly! 👉 | https://bennettcompost.stopsuite.com/shop/bennett-compost-shop/

10/01/2026

It’s officially spooky season! 🧛🎃🕷️💀🕸️👻🦇 Here are five sustainable things you can do this month, that are all completely free:

🎃 Give your pumpkin a second life as compost! Stay tuned for details on pumpkin smashes and other community collections in November. If you’re already a composter, you can add whole pumpkins to your weekly pickup, and smashed pumpkins to your .

👑 Donate old Halloween costumes to community drives, or put together a neighborhood swap. Be creative and go for something home spun if you have the time and resources. ✂️ If you give us a list of random things lying around the house, we’ll send you a costume idea you can make with nothing but tape, glue and a stapler (seriously, dm us!)

🍂 Leave your leaves! If you have a little back yard, leaves your leaves so the fireflies, ladybugs and native bees have a warm place to hibernate. (You can create a small chickenwire enclosure to keep them in place). If you have any extra leaves, send them our way: you can add landscaping bags of leaves and garden cleanup to your weekly pickup for free in your online account.

🦇 Make DIY decorations, like paper bats copied from a template onto construction paper, or craft a witches broom from foraged twigs and branches collected on a nature walk. Above all, take the time to enjoy your creative time.

🫙 Put your plastic candy wrappers in a plastic bottle, and pack tightly, before throwing out. Encapsulating tiny pieces of plastic like this prevents them from breaking free during trash collection, transport and processing. The fewer pieces of plastic blowing around, the better.

Learn more about our work with the community + composting options 👉 Bennett Compost

09/30/2026

Last chance to join founder, Tim Bennett, for Composting 101 at Morris Arboretum on 10/2!

Learn about the different approaches to composting in the city, our insights on common beginner pitfalls, and a q+a session.

📍 Morris Arboretum & Gardens of the University of Pennsylvania 📆 Oct. 2nd, 2-3p 🔗 https://experience.morrisarboretum.org/Info.aspx?EventID=35

09/30/2026

Join is this weekend: 🎶de/composition 1.2: Native Trees, Sonic Roots is an immersive multimedia performance driven by ambient soundscapes, dynamic visuals, narrative storytelling and movement grounded in ecological stories. Real-time audio converted from the bio-electric inputs of trees and worms are merged with live electronic music and Latin folk percussion.

Led by composer and producer June Lopez, alongside narrator and contemporary dance performer Dr. Jamé McCray, with visual artists Samara Talkin and Neil Cippon, this evolving performance spotlights the surrounding environment of the Tookany/Tacony–Frankford Watershed.

Featuring: New live accompaniment by Latin folk percussionists Christian Noguera, Andrés Cisneros, and Esteban “El Tongo” Hernández

09/29/2026

We’re excited to join our neighbors TTF Watershed Partnership at the 6th Tacony Creek Park Music and Arts Festival on Saturday 10/3!

Olney Culture Lab of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia and the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership are bringing a full day of music, art, nature, and community to the Big Field in Tacony Creek Park, at East Olney and East Clarkson Avenues.

Come enjoy performances from:
🎶 Riddem Nation, bringing Jamaican roots reggae and more
🎶 Los Bomberos de la Calle, performing Puerto Rican bomba and plena
🎶 Tookany Creek, with bluegrass music
🎶 Special guests Ñuuxakun Folclorico Mexicano Dance Company

There will be arts and crafts, nature games, bike rides along the park trail, giveaways, and donuts and c***r to welcome the fall. See you in the park! ✌️ and then back at our spot later in the evening for de/composition 1.2 🍂

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