Home Composting

User: kwarsing@me.com

Vendor: Drive Green - Green Energy Consumers Alliance

Action: 3412 - Try Composting!

I compost my food waste in a backyard food composter.  It’s essentially a perforated metal can with a lid purchased from a local hardware store.  Layering the scraps with handfuls of soil and leaves and occasionally aerating with a trowel results in rich natural material for my plants and decreases the amount of methane emitted into the atmosphere.  Many different types and sizes of home composters are available today.  Some composters are stationary, some rotate and others use a small amount of electricity to compost food scraps indoors.  It’s quick and easy to compost and keep compostables out of the waste stream.  Other items which can be included are paper (staples removed), newspapers and non-glossy paper, wax-coated paper products, cardboard (tape and staples removed), leaves/yard waste (weeds are okay for hot piles only — do not include in a cold compost pile to prevent spreading weeds where you’ll use your compost), non-plastic tea bags (staples removed), egg shells (crushed), and coffee grounds.  What can you compost?