Composting is easy. I have one of those tumbler composters in the yard. Vegetable & fruit waste, coffee grounds, egg shells, some cardboard, and other stuff goes into it. If it gets too wet I add dry stuff like leaves or more cardboard.
How much total volume are you able to make in a year off using that tumbler? More than 10 cubic feet? Less than that I'm curious if the effort is worth it.
Every day we have a lot of left over food. What's more green? Send the food to its afterlife in the sink or put it in trash can?
I don't want to hear about how I should be reusing it the next day. I do do that for some food but for a lot of it that's not realistic and I need to be honest with myself.
This the saddest and shallowest cry for help and attention I've seen in a while. Do better.
And, FWIW, composting should be a part of everyone's lives to help the planet, lower emissions and make the lazy and apathetic consumers who constitute our society more aware of their consumption, waste and privilege.
Composting is easy. I have one of those tumbler composters in the yard. Vegetable & fruit waste, coffee grounds, egg shells, some cardboard, and other stuff goes into it. If it gets too wet I add dry stuff like leaves or more cardboard.
How much total volume are you able to make in a year off using that tumbler? More than 10 cubic feet? Less than that I'm curious if the effort is worth it.
TBH, I am not really sure of the total volume. The tumbler thing has two sides to it. Once one is relatively full we start adding to the other side. There really isn't a lot of effort involved. In the summer we get some pretty hot temps and everything breaks down pretty fast.
We have a small garden area that used to be covered by a deck and the soil there isn't the best. I'm just hoping that the compost will augment the soil somewhat. I also don't rake leaves in the fall and just mulch them with the mower and let them stay on the grass. I do use a grass/leave catcher on my mower for some of the yard and also put that on the soil.
I think that some people compost just so they're not adding waste to landfills or down the drain. We do it for that but the biggest reason we started doing it was to try and improve our soil. I only need a small tumbler composter but some people build large bins for compost. I thought about that but we have a lot of coyotes in our neighborhood that I don't want to attract. The bin compost method is more open and seems like it would invite animals.
several of my posts have been removed on this thread but their deletion isn't being tracked and displayed as they should be. Why is that?
I'm just asking a question as that's what i love about LetsRun as we get to ask questions and have conversations that we're not allowed to have elsehwere as the left is out of control
why is this on the site as "on the boards"? obviously no one is talking abt it, maybe no one cares, probably, half a day in, but you feel the need to push it... because maybe youve become addicted to the attention negative or good, and youre asking abt stuff tht aint got nothing to do with running, but you're lonely depressed and you think abt this and have no other way to relate to this depressing reality for yourself than post it on this stank site you you moderate... do you ever stop and wonder, maybe ?
Reading posts unrelated to running on a running website, but too pressed for time to type out "ou" and apostrophes?
If your disposal company did composting they would provide you with a little green bin, you'd just put your food waste in that and they'd pick it up like the trash and recycling. If you've never seen it I'm guessing they don't compost. Most places don't.
I think the consensus best recommendation in that case is to just trash it. Food biodegrades much more easily than other trash so it's not as bad for the landfills. Plus any food waste in your garbage disposal that doesn't make it into the drain can rot and create other problems in your sink drain and disposal.
Never throw food "in the trash." It will rot in there.
Noone seems to know this distinction anymore, but organic waste is called "garbage." Think like the food-only dumpsters behind restaurants, that emit an incredibly heinous stench. That is disposed of separately from ordinary inorganic trash, and doesn't belong in landfills - being completely biodegradable, that's a waste of landfill space, and a nuisance to people who work there.
If your choice is between sink disposal or trash can, the answer is disposal. If you have a compost option (an extra $70-$90 / month in my area or DIY your own time if you have the space for it).
Of course you can just keep the leftovers in the fridge to have another day, or simply suck it up and finish all the food.
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