Kickin the Can!
The good folks over at thisyounghouse seem to be enjoying the rewards of recycling and composting. Check out their great DIY post on starting your own compost. (link).
We have been doing the compost thing since 9/6/08. (2 months) And we have been recycling ever since the WM made it easy to do so w/ curbside recycling. But now that we compost we are even more aware now of what is going where. Our kids tend to stop and think about where something goes before they just throw it in the trash. Even at times correcting us when we forget.
And just like the folks over at ThisYoungHouse we too have also seen a significant decrease in the amount of "trash bags" that we are sending to the landfill. Right now we are sending 1-2 bags a week for a family of 4. It would be nice to have less and maybe save some "green" on paying WM.
What's in those 1-2 bags??
Plastic and other non-recyclables - food packaging
Styrofoam - the stuff that holds your chicken and meat.
Meat waste - mostly bones and some scraps -- a small bit...
Now how about those leaves that are falling...
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A while after getting our compost can we noticed that we had started getting soldier fly maggots. A little research found that to be ok and we now actually add our meat, dairy and fat waste to the compost reducing the amount going to the landfill even more.
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