Still haven’t emptied it!

Need more time! I'm anticipating seeing a lot of plastic remnants from plastic-lined paper products and perhaps unfinished "compostable" plastics. It's incredible how much material I've dumped into this thing over the last two years and it's still not only stayed the same size, but actually shrunk several inches!

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Cured Compost Bin Nearly Ready to Empty!

It's been about a year since I stopped adding to this compost bin and started a new one. It'll be interesting to see what all is in here besides finished compost. I know I added plenty of paper products that most likely had a plastic liner sandwiched in between layers. There's also plenty of bags of leaf cleanup dumped in here, so there's most likely some pieces of litter. This doesn't bother me. The bottom line is I avoided the landfill with a massive portion of organic materials and now I will have some great compost, too.

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