Author: Ben Kassoy
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Ah, composting: the perfect way to cook that dynamite dinner or groom your yard – while keeping waste out of landfills, reducing greenhouse gasses, and turning organic matter into revitalized soil all at the same time. Talk about a win-win…win!
And yet, sometimes all that winning doesn’t come easy. While some cities offer curbside compost pickup, and while some green thumbs compost in home gardens, other folks could use a little more time, space, and convenience. No worries – we’ve got you. Read on for some quick tips for composting made simple.
1. Find your local community garden or composting service
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many cities have followed, but most haven’t. Good news is, community gardens are making an impact from, ahem, the ground up. These public spaces are a hyperlocal way to fight climate change and sustainably feed communities – and they’ll be super grateful to take your compost. Chances are there’s a community garden or composting service closer than you think: google “community garden” or “composting service” along with your area code, or
use this handy map to find a local garden.
You can also find your industrial composting facilities with this
easy composter locator. There are more and more of these facilities that will take your scraps and commercially compostable products to turn it into rich soil, on a bigger scale.
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compostable bin bag (which, by definition, are always compostable). This helps you manage the timeline around your compost drop-off. Then, see above to find a community garden or composting service for your frozen scraps. Oh! And your local farmers’ market may also have a compost drop-off location.
3. Invest in a composting tumbler…
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