Compost v garbage disposal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have a commercial composting service, you can also compost meat/bones, dairy, etc.

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It’s unclear to me if OP has begun composting at home or if they have begun using their municipality’s composting service. I love our city composting; according to the list we’ve been given we can compost so much (greasy pizza boxes and meat/bones) and the compost we got back is absolutely beautiful soil.

[Anonymous]

Fairfax County has several drop off sites for things you can't (or don't want to) compost. Including the stuff that shouldn't go in the piles like oils and fats.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We do both- most gets scraped into food waste bin, tiny bits get washed down drain and that’s where disposal is handy. Could do it with mesh drain trap I guess-

Glad you are composting! We have one tiny city garbage bin for 4 people- compost is awesome.

+1 and you still will have cooked veggies mixed with oil/fat that should not be composted. You could use a mesh drain, but your trashbin would stink, unless you take it out every night. We have both.

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Who doesn't take out their kitchen trash every night? Something in there always stinks!

We only take the bag out on garbage day. We compost food waste, I would hate to use extra bags when it is not full. Our kitchen garbage has a lid. Nothing stinks. We do not have much actual food in there thinking about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We do both- most gets scraped into food waste bin, tiny bits get washed down drain and that’s where disposal is handy. Could do it with mesh drain trap I guess-

Glad you are composting! We have one tiny city garbage bin for 4 people- compost is awesome.

+1 and you still will have cooked veggies mixed with oil/fat that should not be composted. You could use a mesh drain, but your trashbin would stink, unless you take it out every night. We have both.

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Who doesn't take out their kitchen trash every night? Something in there always stinks!

We only take the bag out on garbage day. We compost food waste, I would hate to use extra bags when it is not full. Our kitchen garbage has a lid. Nothing stinks. We do not have much actual food in there thinking about it.

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[Anonymous]

The garbage disposal is from the Devil and should be removed entirely. (Laugh if you want—it’s one of the first things we did on buying our house.) Disposals are ridiculous burdens on water, sewer, electricity AND lost compostage. This is why they are illegal in many major US cities (including NYC).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The garbage disposal is from the Devil and should be removed entirely. (Laugh if you want—it’s one of the first things we did on buying our house.) Disposals are ridiculous burdens on water, sewer, electricity AND lost compostage. This is why they are illegal in many major US cities (including NYC).

NYC has allowed them since 1997.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We do both- most gets scraped into food waste bin, tiny bits get washed down drain and that’s where disposal is handy. Could do it with mesh drain trap I guess-

Glad you are composting! We have one tiny city garbage bin for 4 people- compost is awesome.

+1 and you still will have cooked veggies mixed with oil/fat that should not be composted. You could use a mesh drain, but your trashbin would stink, unless you take it out every night. We have both.

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Who doesn't take out their kitchen trash every night? Something in there always stinks!

We only take the bag out on garbage day. We compost food waste, I would hate to use extra bags when it is not full. Our kitchen garbage has a lid. Nothing stinks. We do not have much actual food in there thinking about it.

+1. Only take out when full, otherwise wasting. You fill up a whole bag in a day? With what?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We do both- most gets scraped into food waste bin, tiny bits get washed down drain and that’s where disposal is handy. Could do it with mesh drain trap I guess-

Glad you are composting! We have one tiny city garbage bin for 4 people- compost is awesome.

+1 and you still will have cooked veggies mixed with oil/fat that should not be composted. You could use a mesh drain, but your trashbin would stink, unless you take it out every night. We have both.

Why do you not compost your oil/cooked veggies? I don’t have a large enough yard for home composting but I hope to soon and am curious about this.

We don't have a yard either so have used this service for years. Love love love love them, and they take a lot of things otherwise not compostable like meat, dairy, oils, even TP tubes!
https://www.veterancompost.com/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We do both- most gets scraped into food waste bin, tiny bits get washed down drain and that’s where disposal is handy. Could do it with mesh drain trap I guess-

Glad you are composting! We have one tiny city garbage bin for 4 people- compost is awesome.

+1 and you still will have cooked veggies mixed with oil/fat that should not be composted. You could use a mesh drain, but your trashbin would stink, unless you take it out every night. We have both.

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Who doesn't take out their kitchen trash every night? Something in there always stinks!

We only take the bag out on garbage day. We compost food waste, I would hate to use extra bags when it is not full. Our kitchen garbage has a lid. Nothing stinks. We do not have much actual food in there thinking about it.

+1. Only take out when full, otherwise wasting. You fill up a whole bag in a day? With what?

Same here. PP uses a new trash bag everyday? How wasteful.

[Anonymous]

We dont have a disposal so we try to compost as much as possible.

[Anonymous]

Get backyard chickens! Ours eat everything scrap-wise (and make rich fertilizer too!)