OK, please understand that I'm a city girl, so the idea of composting was a bit foreign to me. Well, actually, disgusting. Let's see, it involves collecting food scraps and other bio-degradable stuff....egg shells, coffee grinds, onion peels, apple cores, lettuce hearts...well you get the idea. So now what? Why do I want to advocate keeping garbage around? Here's why.
Food scraps and yard clippings make up 1/4 of solid waste in the U.S. Consider what happens to this mountain of decomposing mash when it ends up in our landfills. When this stuff decomposes without air, it produces METHANE, a greenhouse gas 20 times more noxious than CO2! If you change your own habits today, thereby diverting what you can in your household trash can and yard can, you can have a substantially positive impact on our planet. And it's easier than you think. Really, I promise!
Consider keeping a small pail near the kitchen sink, perhaps under your sink, next to the trash can (these pails have lids to eliminate odors ). Or install a sliding shelf under your sink, deep enough to hold two cans, one for unusable trash, and one for re-usable trash (once an oxymoron folks!). If you're considering doing a kitchen re-model, keep this extra feature in mind. Greening your home means putting more green in your pockets!
Make a weekly or bi-weekly trip to your composter with your handy pail, and watch your garden grow, naturally. The nutrient-rich humus that your composter will produce is the perfect natural fertilizer, and you will help save precious landfill space too!
Check out https://www.compostumbler.com/StoreFront/IAFDispatcher or http://www.plowhearth.com/magazine/compost_how_to.asp for easy how-to information and product options that make sense for your life. It's easier than you think!
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