Go green and compost!

no, but that's because I don't have the energy to do the work it requires to do it - so I do pass - if there were someone around here that would do the work, I'd be happy to supply stuff for it. Now, I do recycle, so my plastics, cardboard, glass and cans don't go to the "dump" However, our dump sites aren't illegal around here, tho I've certainly seen some that are!

We don't have a compost pit in my area, i don't even have a pit for recycling !!! I'm going to buy a compost pit, i have garden, so i will use the compost at my flowers and grass. To recycle paper, plastic and glass, i have to drive for 5 minutes.

We do not have compost pit, but my parents do add green waste under plants and trees. I do give all house products for recycling in the recycling bag provided in the area. Even cooking oil is recycled in some places in my locality.

We do segregate out our vegetable waste. We have an enclosed area where we put it. No one turns it, otherwise I would have much more wonderful garden soil to grow things in. It certainly does help the garbage stay less messy. We just use an old plastic container. Our transfer station has a place for many of the things like plastics and cardboards to be recycled. We have a fire pit and burn cardboard to start the tree limbs burning. We end up with branches, etc. when we trim the trees. I understand ashes are good for gardens as well.

Here in my city in Michigan, we don't really have compost. We have two small bins for yard waste, one for recyclables, and a large one for trash. I wish my area stressed things like this more - reusing things that can be made into other useful things. I think it's so neat when a community implements great ideas like using compost for other things. It's kind of like a "circle of life." Yes, 'The Lion King' really does come into play here - LOL! Seriously, though, I'm sure there is some way for everything to be reused or remade into something useful while it saves money and protects the environment. Instead of trying to modify our current health plans that seem to work pretty well, I wish our government would invest its time and money in conserving energy, saving money, and so on. Time is better spent thinking green! Thanks for posting, my friend.

Compost is a great idea! What can put in a compost pile from home I throw on the manure pile at the stable I work with. A few times a year the pile gets taken away. The horse manure is used for top soil and compost at a landscaping business. I work at a college in the kitchin. We started collecting food scrapes for compost over a year ago. We put in a barrel everyday and in the morning a maintence guy picks it up. The bad thing about this when it started the compost got put in the trash because a compost area wasn't set up! Then it wasn't thrown away and we heard it was used in the top soil for all the plants,flowers and other greenery that gets planted in the spring. Rumors have been flying around and no one has the time or will take the time to find out if we really have a compost area and it is being used at all! The head of food sevice is a *ick head and he believes we have one! So he won't check into it! The other supervisors had been asked to look into it but they either forget or get to busy to look into it! I have had thought of doing it but I know if I do it I will get into trouble with my bosses! So I will keep on my supervisers to look into it! If we aren't using the food for compost then why are we still doing it?

We were having a compost pit in a corner inside our compound wall in my home town.Those days we were having a couple of cows for our daily milk.A person will come every mo9rning and evening to milk the cows and and I can still smell the sweet smell of the frothy fresh and warm milk in the pots I used to carry to our kitchen.The dong of these cows were daily dumped in to the compost pit.Once in six months our servants will come with the bullock cart to carry the compost soil from the pits. Now only my aunt lives there buying sachets of milk and the pit has vanished along with the memories.I am typing this from my apartment at the 3rd floor in this city yearning for that pit.

I had one earlier SV when there was space around in the backyard.Now in a flat, I cannot have this because t would be very clumsy to maintain this.

I have photos of my latest "composting in a small space experiment" including the worms (!) on my gardening website. Surprised? http://www.drann.us/anns_aerogarden_updates/2010/04/my-small-space-composting-experiment.html When I return from my next trip I will go to phase two of this delightful experiment, but I must say that the soil in my little "bin" smells wonderful. I put a lot of mashed up citrus rinds in there and they decompose fast.

My husband made us a compost pile years ago in the corner of our back yard. It's a little fenced in area. We use the compost all of the time for gardening, etc.

Honestly we tried doing it in our backyard the composing thing like you have to not throw the vegetables and other not paper or plastic waste in to this compost pit but somehow it attracts small insects and we stop doing it. I think the best thing to do is to dug in to the soil because we only have small backyard so it's not even possible. I think it is best in a wide backyard not in small confined places because it will attract small insects and they fly around and kind of stick to our freshly laundry clothes and it's really yucky. But i do support go for green.

hi,sv,yes,we have,but it is in small scale,i mean i used to put the material come from 4 buffaloes and other waste material in a pit for decomposition...Later i use it as compost to my vegetable garden where i am growing all vegetables...

This rather funny, go green and compost, bet you did not know that while you are composting you might be produeing methane gas. Even if you are doing your composting correctly and not producing methane gas, you are producing carbon dioxide, the very gas that many believe is the cause for global warming. Do you believe in Gobal warming, if your composting is adding to it.

I do compost. I try to garden in our hard soil. Last year i put grass clippings along the fence 1. keep weeds down 2. mix in hard soil to make it easier to work up this year. It sure helped.

I havent herd of any but we do have places to put what isnt wanted in the dump!