Organic Recycling?
By maezee
@maezee (41997)
United States
April 24, 2018 10:20am CST
Does your community offer this, an organic/compost recycling program? This is new to my city so me and my roomies are going to give it a go since we eat so much produce. Our organic recycling program takes any part of fruits or vegetables, coffee grounds, used coffee filters and paper towel, cardboard food boxes and they pick it up once per week.
One concern so far is how much it is going to stink and also if it will attract animals. And also, I should find out where the compost goes and what they do with it.
Do you have this program too? Or do you compost on your own? How has it been going?
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12 responses
@thislittlepennyearns (58103)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
24 Apr 18
There isn't a program out here that does that, but we do it ourselves and burn the rest of the trash
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@thislittlepennyearns (58103)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
24 Apr 18
@maezee a little bit of both. We also have over four acres so it doesn't effect us with the smell as much!
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@almostoveryou (4175)
• Philippines
25 Apr 18
We make our own organic compost in the backyard. :) It's been very helpful to our plants. We never had to use artificial fertilizer to boost their growth.
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@shaggin (71655)
• United States
11 May 18
It does seem like it will stink after a week and cause fruit flies in your house. Can you keep the container outside and take the scraps outside to dump into the container? I think this is absolutely wonderful and I would love if ur town did this. I compost my own scraps but just grass cuttings, fruit peels, coffee grounds etc. No meat! That's meat they do accept the meat there. They don't accept much for recycling pick up here just some plastic bottles and all glass and newspapers. I wish we were about to recycle more where I live.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
24 Apr 18
That's really a great program. I remember back when I was in elementary school, we were taught about that. And people in small villages were taught about that to and they did it back then.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
26 Apr 18
it does seem right to return and replenish the land. but i just also wonder the safest place for that.
@luisadannointed (4171)
• Philippines
6 May 18
Nope... or maybe I am too busy at work. I always leave the house once the sun was out, and go home before or after midnight. No time to talk to our neighbors.
@just4him (305415)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
2 May 18
We don't have that program here. I hope it goes well and they pick it up before it really starts to stink and attract fruit flies.
@Metsrock69 (3492)
• United States
26 Apr 18
I don't think so. I live in a city where people hardly recycle.
