A Novice

A cool thing I recently learned…

You can compost in the green bins!  For those of us who live in Los Angeles on streets that have at least some houses (as opposed to streets where there are only mainly apartment buildings), we have those big green bins out front.  I know ours mostly gets used by the gardeners and their trimmings.

But I recently learned that one can throw their vegetable matter away in the green bins!  It makes sense, but I had never thought of it.

Now - to be clear - it’s not exactly like a traditional compost, in that you can’t throw egg shells into it.  But if it can be grown in a garden, then it can go in the green bin.

We’ve been taking our coffee grounds, carrot peelings, and cucumber ends and have been storing them in a large tupperware in the freezer (where it won’t smell!).  When the tupperware is full, we just take it down to the green bin and toss it.

It really saves on garbage space, and I love knowing that it’s going to rot much faster in the bin than it would in a plastic garbage bag.

Yay for the green bin!