We've composted our food scraps for 38 years!

User: paulg1973@icloud.com

Vendor: Drive Green - Green Energy Consumers Alliance

Action: 2577 - Make Magic: Compost

Since we are on a private septic system, the BOH won't allow a garbage disposal. So we just have a small aluminum pail to hold our kitchen scraps, and a couple of times a week, one of us carries it to the compost bin. We rinse out the pail, and the process repeats. We use a large, heavy-duty, purpose-built compost bin rather than an open compost pile to frustrate any animals that might be tempted by food scraps. The bin has a trap door down at the bottom, and by the time stuff makes it to the bottom of the bin, it is turned back into soil. Easy, simple, effective. If there is a downside, it would be that you need to take out the garbage even in the winter, and sometimes the lid gets a little frozen. It doesn't take much sun to warm it up and free it, and banging it with a fist also releases the frost. All in all, it just works.