http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost Comments on 'compost all of my kitchen waste' en-gb team@pledgebank.com 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 2 hourly http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost#comment_854 Maybe I'll try seperating my organic compost from the compost with pesticides. That way I'd feel save using the organic stuff on my garden, while keeping the pesticide contaminated stuff out of the landfill (or incinerator). Maybe I'll put the contaminated compost near the garage, which is probably already contaminated with gasoline and other unappealing goo! Thanks for this pledge, by the way! http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost#comment_785 I've been composting my kitchen & garen waste for several years now. It's the best form of recycling because you can do it at home, and you don't need to lug huge bags of compost home from the garden centre. http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost#comment_715 We already compost any vegetable matter (if it's meat, the dogs get it). We're in a rental so we can't have an actual compost pile in the yard; we take our kitchen scraps back into an orange grove to a pile we've started (which is starting to "work" nicely!). We also recycle like fiends, everything from plastic grocery store bags to batteries to cardboard. And we save #2 jugs to fill with water for hurricane season... http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost#comment_625 We're quite fortunate where we live; I have my own compost bin, but the council also gives us two big brown paper bags each week for garden and kitchen waste which can be composted; they shred it, so we can give them larger things than I can successfully compost at home - this includes cardboard. (One of last week's bags even contained a whole shrub I had dug up.) The resulting compost can then be bought back from the council for pennies, which is good news, because I can't produce sufficient compost for my whole garden in my (large) bin. I agree with Michael - I don't worry about non-organic foods going into my own compost. It all rots down to the same stuff in the end, and my garden certainly hasn't suffered for it - it's much better than landfilling it. http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost#comment_597 Turil, from my point of view I'd rather have a bit of non-organic things in my compost than have it in the waste cycle up to the landfill where it won't do any good at all except release methane. http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost#comment_596 Paul, Paper and cardboard, I recycle, but I do compost paper towels and clothe-dryer lint and things like that. http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost#comment_573 Turil, I often wonder about using non-organic stuff too. One option is to ask neighbour's and friends who don't use pesticides in their gardens to give you their garden waste. Hope that helps. http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost#comment_540 I just got a nice big prefab composter from my local Freecycle list and I'm very excited. I'm not sure I want to try to compost things that aren't organic though. I do try to buy as much organic food as possible, but sometimes I cave in and get the non-organic stuff and hope it's not too terrible. http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost#comment_511 I already do most compost most of my kitchen waste - well worms do anyway. Makes excellent fertiliser for the garden. http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost#comment_485 Good idea - been talking about the very thing for ages. The council takes cardboard, paper, plastic, tins and cans but not garden waste. This will finally spur me into action! http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost#comment_470 Thanks for the feedback, Michael. Much appeciated. Just as a matter of interest, do you also compost things like cardboard egg cartons, newspaper etc? http://www.pledgebank.com/kitchencompost#comment_465 Good pledge! I already compost most things, but I'll be extra-careful from now on.