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You can do two things...

Container garden! Even your little potted friends will enjoy the compost that you make!

When you find you have too much, put it on CL as FREE. Other people would love to have it, too!

You could do a worm bin

http://your.kingcounty.gov/solidwaste/naturalyardcare/wormbins.asp

Try searching for a community compost bin. You can take your scraps there, and other people in the community can take from the bin, if they need. There might be one in your area.

Mike:

I live in a small garden-less NYC apartment as well. I wrote a blog post about urban composting recently: http://itsagreengreengreengreenworld.blogspot.com/2009/02/urban-composting.html

There are several public places you can take kitchen scraps for composting in NYC. Check out http://www.greenapplemap.org/page/compost for locations.

If there's a location that's convenient for you, it's fairly easy to save up scraps in the freezer until you can take them to a drop off point.

per SoSue, in nyc you can freeze your food scraps until you can drop them off at various community bins. Union Square farmer's market has one, managed by Lower East Side Ecology Center.

In Brooklyn the Ft Greene greenmarket also accepts kitchen scraps. Try searching your local greenmarket first to see if they take scraps, otherwise check out a local community garden -- many would be happy to take your scraps!