Don’t forget the kitchen scraps
As part of our household “Simple Steps” program we are working to reduce the amount of trash that goes from our house into a landfill. First, we are recycling everything that can be recycled - easily. So cans, jars, newspapers, bottles, and other stuff that can be put into our local curbside recycling bins. There is still more to figure out what to do with but unfortunately and sadly we missed one important opportunity to recycle. You see, until today we also threw out food scraps. Yikes! What have we been thinking. Well the simple case is that we have been on autopilot for way to long and we weren’t actually thinking.
Determined to recycle our kitchen scraps, I spent a little bit of time last night search the internet. I found a short article on WikiHow about bulding a simple compost bin for kitchen scraps. Today I went out to the garage and found everything that I needed for the project and in just a few minutes our composter for kitchen scraps was ready. How simple was that?
Our kitchen waste was only a small part of our garbage - most of it is packaging that doesn’t go fit the description of what is allowed in out recycling bin. Our solid waste output is not very great but now it is just a bit less. Our goal for this year is to have empty garbage cans on collection day. Imagine if entire blocks of homes, neighborhoods, and towns could meet this kind of challenge with the curb side collection only for things to recycle.
the composting posting is going well. All kitchen scraps are put into the compost bin. The scraps are turning into compost as excpected.