The minimalist way of composting
Another one from EcoSpace:
Just wanted to comment about a recent article there about what they call minimalist composting, which is basically collecting kitchen scraps in a covered plastic bucket on their back porch and dumping it on the leaf pile in their back yard when it’s full.
To gardeners and people who compost already, that sound really really obvious, but most people don’t even consider composting, even with countries like Britain considering charging people by the amount of rubbish they produce. It’s not a popular scheme because people are already subject to CCTV coverage in many places they go and shrinking privacy rights really rankle the populace, but it’s a policy I don’t mind because if you make less waste, you take up less landfill space and the garbage trucks don’t have to come ’round to your house so often.
In fact, the city where I live started skipping every other week of rubbish collection and gave every house a new composting bin as well as a recycling bin and door-to-door newspaper recycling collection. Not all cities or towns in the UK do this, but I’m happy that mine does, but I still compost because of my growing container garden, and to just make less waste.
So I’d encourage anyone who is able to collect kitchen scraps in a bucket to do so, even if you don’t garden. You could always dump the scraps at the bottom of your yard or ‘donate’ them to a neighbor who gardens, I’m sure they’d appreciate any extra food for their worms!
May 16th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Thank you for the comment. Since that post I have stepped up my program with a real compost bin that’s a little easier to stir. My winter’s composting has yielded me some great compost for my spring garden. I’m throughly hooked. Thank’s for encouraging others!