We've always wished we could compost, but without a yard—and with New York City's notorious rat population—we'd long given up on the idea. That is, until this sign caught our eye...
Self Serve Compost
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It's located in our local park.The project is self-serve, run by volunteers, and is open on Saturdays from 9am to 12 pm.
There's a number of barrels set up that are marked either open or closed.
You can save your scraps all week, and then you add them to the pile. Afterwards, you can help yourself to the nutrient rich soil.
We did a little more research, and it turns out there's a number of composting centers around the city. We're so going back next Saturday morning. Does anyone else do something similar in their city? Have any tips?
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This is utterly thrilling! I want to start one of these in Austin. Anyone got advice about how?
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WHERE on that website link does it tell you where there are composting centers? All i found was info about in-home worm composting, which i'm not really interested in.
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hi mh330,
The link doesn't map out sites, but if you go to the "calendar" section, it does list a phone number and website for compost centers in the different boroughs. Hopefully they can tell you where your nearest center is. For this one, which is the "North Brooklyn" compost center, the e-mail contact is: gdgcompost@gmail.com. Hope that helps!
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There are community gardens in Seattle that have a community compost bin. I don't know what the rules are, like if you have to have a plot in the community garden in order to take compost. But my personal feeling is one should take as much as they've contributed.
In San Diego, the city landfill takes yard waste and makes big ginormous piles of compost or mulch. And it's pretty good stuff. San Diego residents (with ID or utility bill for a San Diego address) get up to 2 cubic yards of compost for free each time you go, you just have to bring your own containers and load it yourself.
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