Green Week: Day 3


At our house we compost all of our food waste. This has saved us so much space in our garbage and it goes into making some really great gardening supplies. Currently we have to take our food waste to our "sanitary district" where they compost HUGE mounds of steaming black...well, compost...that you can purchase for a pittance. We're on a waiting list for an "Earth Machine" so we can skip hauling in buckets of food scraps and combine them with our yard waste in our own back yard.

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African Kelli said…
so, so cool!
3:26 PM
Test said…
hmmm.. i'm going to see if this is available in lovely Maplewood. We've been 'composting' Pete's coffee grounds (as I am still mostly off the good stuff). We're all about using as little as possible and we've been blowing through the water (warming bottles). Urgh.
5:56 PM
kmd said…
Wow. Duluth is very progressive. Here in St. Petersburg they don't even pick up our recycling! We have to drive it to the recycling place ourselves. Very annoying.
8:58 AM
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