I should not be this excited about food scraps. Really, really shouldn't. And yet.
When I started cooking a lot last year, I felt frustrated by the amount of food waste I was dumping in the garage bag. We didn't have a general compost program at my undergrad, and a dorm apartment isn't really the place to make a compost pile. So I've been anticipating this since I first found out about GrowNYC's compost program at their Greenmarkets. Once a week at the local Greenmarket, I take my little pile of food scraps to the compost stand. They have big bins waiting to take my scraps and turn them into compost for city greening projects. Woohoo!
Right now I'm using a foil/plastic takeout container that's living in the freezer to collect my scraps. When I stopped by the Greenmarket stand last week, they told me that if I'm keeping the scraps in the freezer, then I can actually use a paper bag, and then just drop the entire bag in the collection bin. I'm probably going to switch to that method next week, until I can find a better container.
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