I don't backyard compost food, but since we're not supposed to put sods in the green bin, I have a sod pile in the corner of the yard that I often toss weeds and garden clippings into. I lay the sods dirt side up and the grass and weeds kind of breakdown underneath. I've planted things on top of the sod pile in the past with lots of success.

My CSA recycles egg cartons. I find I am holding onto my veggie bags for reuse. I know there is more I could be doing, but I figure that as long as I keep taking steps forward, I'm going in the right direction.

Separately, no matter how sleep deprived I was yesterday, taking a full Zolpedem (generic Ambien) was not a good idea. I am FULL of the gronk today. I usually only take a half.

We sort out recycling but not compost.

Actually, we did sort out the compost once upon a time, but last year someone stole our building's compost bin! Why would anyone even do that? Totally annoying (and now that the city is semi-officially requiring everyone to compost, there's a huge backlog of requests for new composting bins and I don't even know how many thousands of places we are down on the waiting list).

Once you compost, what do you do with the compost?

Italian designer creates gorgeous illuminated shoes from fiber optics

Pretty!

I spread it in my vegetable garden, of course! It's basically dirt.

lisah! Sorry about your crappy day and stress... and seeing your name reminded me that I still have your house key. I'm not completely sure which one it is on the ol' keychain, though. So, one of these days, we should get together so I can return it. After you tell me which one it is. I think I know, but...

ha! thanks, Jen. I'd love to get together sometime soon! fo' real.

I spread it in my vegetable garden, of course!

And Connie's question + flea's answer exactly highlight why I'm getting more dissatisfied with not having food waste/compost as part of the city solid waste services the more I think about it -- as it stands, the city has some decent info on composting and they occasionally have a sale on compost bins, but there's absolutely no motivation to compost for non-gardeners. And even though this is kind of a more-locavore-than-thou area, we have a *hell* of a lot more non-gardeners than gardeners...

We always wind up with waaaaaaaaaay more compost than we can use, so we mostly give it away to people with real (grass) yards. (As I mentioned before, in exchange for their clippings and dried leaves. It's a good system.)