COMPOST: COVER IT OR NOT?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpYyH7LyMW8 If you have raccoons or opossums digging in your uncovered pile, it's worth covering it up. When it rains, uncover it so the pile can keep working- compost piles crave moisture, and it's not easy to oversaturate one.

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Pedal power: How Denver bike crews are rescuing food from landfills one ride at a time

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/07/scraps-bike-compost-denver/ It’s a steamy Friday morning, and Christi Turner is elbows-deep in compost. Armed with yellow gloves and an equally sunny smile, she is undeterred as flies buzz and a strong stench rises around the Dumpster where she’s tossing animal skins, pizza dough and other heavy-duty food refuse. Removing straws and recyclables from the fresh pile of waste, Turner cleans her gloves and the newly empty compost bins. Job done, she hops on her bike and sets off for another pick-up point. This smelly operation is all part of a day’s work for Scraps, a small-scale, bike-based composting company that Turner launched this year. She uses a bike with a trailer to collect compost from restaurants and apartment buildings that otherwise would throw their extra food in the garbage. Multiple times…

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