Compost

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April 11, 2008

Abendigo R. 286 reviews Send Message | Add to Friends

Confessions of a Guerilla Composter

I want to start a new movement called Guerilla Composting. All you SF urban dwellers can begin composting today, if you don't already!

My Victorian building on Dolores Park in The Mission doesn't have composting. But every Wednesday night our neighbors roll out their green Norcal compost bins onto the street for Thursday morning pickup.

My wife and I have a small plastic bucket that we fill with coffee grounds, vegetable husks and egg shells. Then, quietly, ever so surreptitiously, every Wednesday night I (usually it's me), since my wife and I have this deal, where whoever dumps the compost doesn't have to clean the bin, I sneak down into the street, and find a nearby bin, and lift the lid, and voila! My compost bucket has been emptied.

I'm no dumpster diver, you know, or anything like that, but I can say with a certain assuredness, I'm a guerilla composter.

Heck, there's even a program at McGill University in Montreal (didn't the founder of Terracycle go there?), and guess what it's called? Gorilla Composting!

http://gorilla.mcgill.ca/compostingatmcgill.htm

Abendigo R.'s keywords: guerilla composting, compost, fertilizer, gardening, city composting, recycing, reuse, waste

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