Last year, the city of Kettering launched a food composting drop-off program. I knew nothing about it until a few months ago after reading an article and the city offered an incentive: a big bucket to transport food scraps to the compost bins. Well, sign me up!
Since then, I’ve been collecting my food scraps in a small, one-gallon bucket lined with a BPI-certified compostable bag that sits next to my kitchen sink. When the little bags fill up, I transfer them to the larger bucket. Once that bucket is full, I make a trip to the drop-off site.
This routine has made me much more aware of how much food waste I generate in everyday life - how much of it ends up in the trash and then, in a landfill. It’s surprising how quickly those scraps add up. Composting has been an easy way to make a small change in my daily habits. Instead of treating food scraps as waste, they are now a resource that can be turned into something useful.
I’m glad Kettering made this program available and hope more people discover it.
I presume it is only vegetable food waste that gets collected and not meat or fish products? That's what happens here anyway.
ReplyDeleteOne of the clubs here at the condo, has been asking for food waste composting. There is a drop off at the Saturday Farmers market.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great program!
ReplyDeleteThat's a wonderful program. I wish we had one here.
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