Food Scraps- Are They Really That Gross?

Today's compost toter full of wasted food looks like a nice mix of noodles, tomatoes, chicken fingers and french fries. Looking at photos like this (or inside compost toters in real life) normally elicits an "ewwwww" or similar. Is it really, though? If I put any of this on a plate in nice little portions, you'd probably eat it. This leads to my main point: Where is the away place where stuff gets thrown?  What's the difference between materials that are in your hand five seconds prior before they land in a plastic bag in a container labeled "trash" or otherwise? I look at this and think, "I'm glad this is going to get turned back into fertile soil soon". Close the loop, and learn to embrace it.  It's our…

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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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