How to easily turn your food scraps into compost:
Collect your compost
Find the closet composting location
Drop it off
Collect your compost
Find the closet composting location
Drop it off
Pros: minimizes waste, can turn into soil, reduces trash bags
Cons: may have to pay for pick up depending on where you live...worth it!
Review: Whether you start your own compost at home or drop it off somewhere, this is a huge step in reducing your personal carbon footprint. However you can make it happen...PLEASE DO!
Happy Valentine’s Day to our one true love, Mother Earth. In any healthy relationship, it requires a lot of commitment and hard work, a balance between giving and receiving. But recently, we - as a species - have been taking more than what we have been contributing, paving the way for the first existential breakup of our lifetime. And Earth is ready to ghost us quicker than a f***boy on Hinge.
One of the simplest things we can do to combat the pollution and waste we are dumping into Earth is composting. It is astonishing how much of the trash we throw way is food. By having a few different bins for the types of waste we produce (recyclables, compostables, other), we can responsibly dispose of these materials to help keep our planet clean.
On average, Americans throw away over 1200 lbs EACH of organic material that can be composted. Food makes up the single largest contribution to our landfills each year, with over 40 million tons of food waste being dumped into them. Almost a quarter of our waste comes from food, and nearly 50% of our trash that ends up in our landfills is compostable. We are desperately running out of capacity to handle all of our waste; and the more we just throw away, the more polluted our world becomes.
The US creates the most trash out of any country in the world, but we have the ability to change that. We must be diligent of what we throw away, organizing all of our waste into what is recyclable/compostable or not. It’s such a simple change, but we just fail to do it. Cities and communities are slowly providing more options to be able to accommodate for compost/food waste, but right now it is our responsibility to handle our trash.
So we wish all you love birds out there a very happy v day, but let us not forget the one babe that unites us all 💙🌎💚
