A bucketfull of goodness
For a few months now I've collected the coffee grounds from the downstairs lunchroom for my compost bin. Every day between 3 and 4 pm I head downstairs with my 10 litre bucket, we toss the coffee grounds in there, and I head back upstairs and continue work. Good stuff. On Friday I take the coffee grounds and the sparse banana peel, apple cores, and tea bags in the bucket to the allotment and dump the contents of the bucket into the compost bin.
Last week I was chatting with another neighbour. They run the E-Waste Race: a program with school children, educating them about recycling e-waste, and running a challenge with schools across the country to see which school would collect the most e-waste in order to win a prize. As driven as they are in their message of recycling, it shouldn't have surprised me they would collect their green waste in a separate bin from their regular waste. Timmy confessed they did just toss in the regular waste container at the end of the week though, as our building has no separate collection of green waste. I told them about my bucket, and how I could come in on Friday afternoons and collect their green waste at the end of the week to take it to the allotment for my compost bin. And if their bin was full before then, they could come and dump it at any point during the week as well. The bucket is in my workspace every day.
And on the same day, my bookkeeper heard what I did with Subbar and E-Waste Race, and said his office also creates a good portion of green waste. Last Monday I took a tiny bucket with a lid to them, so they could collect it for me as well.
Yesterday afternoon there was a knock on the door: my bookkeeper came in with the small bucket and it was full to the brim! Coffee grounds, fruit waste...all kind of goodness. I happily accepted the contents. At the end of the afternoon, I added the coffee grounds from Subbar (stealing ginger slices from someone's empty tea cup that was on the counter, waiting for a turn in the dishwasher as well). And then I dropped by E-Waste to pick up their green waste.
My 10 litre bucket was full to the brim!
With all these people helping out my compost bin, I will need more regular disposal of the green waste. During the hot months of summer it was already a given that I would need to empty my 10 litre bucket more than once a week, but now I'm looking at the luxury of having to do that because the bucket fills up too quickly.
Grow, my garden, grow. Mommy needs a place to put her compost!
Last week I was chatting with another neighbour. They run the E-Waste Race: a program with school children, educating them about recycling e-waste, and running a challenge with schools across the country to see which school would collect the most e-waste in order to win a prize. As driven as they are in their message of recycling, it shouldn't have surprised me they would collect their green waste in a separate bin from their regular waste. Timmy confessed they did just toss in the regular waste container at the end of the week though, as our building has no separate collection of green waste. I told them about my bucket, and how I could come in on Friday afternoons and collect their green waste at the end of the week to take it to the allotment for my compost bin. And if their bin was full before then, they could come and dump it at any point during the week as well. The bucket is in my workspace every day.
And on the same day, my bookkeeper heard what I did with Subbar and E-Waste Race, and said his office also creates a good portion of green waste. Last Monday I took a tiny bucket with a lid to them, so they could collect it for me as well.
Yesterday afternoon there was a knock on the door: my bookkeeper came in with the small bucket and it was full to the brim! Coffee grounds, fruit waste...all kind of goodness. I happily accepted the contents. At the end of the afternoon, I added the coffee grounds from Subbar (stealing ginger slices from someone's empty tea cup that was on the counter, waiting for a turn in the dishwasher as well). And then I dropped by E-Waste to pick up their green waste.
My 10 litre bucket was full to the brim!
With all these people helping out my compost bin, I will need more regular disposal of the green waste. During the hot months of summer it was already a given that I would need to empty my 10 litre bucket more than once a week, but now I'm looking at the luxury of having to do that because the bucket fills up too quickly.
Grow, my garden, grow. Mommy needs a place to put her compost!