Tuesday, July 23, 2024
We have been taking our can recycling to fund raiser bins since we moved to Minnesota. I have no idea how much they get for aluminum these days, but we are definitely not the only people who do it. The bin was really full today. This church parking lot bin is right by Taco John’s, so it is a great trip all around.
We have been doing the county commercial composting for several years. We would get bags from the site, fill them up with all food scraps (even bones and meat and bacon grease!), then store them in the freezer until we had a couple, and later took them to one of the collection sites. It made us have no (NO!) food waste in our garbage, so our garbage cans would never smell. We also didn’t even have to put out the garbage cans on lots of weeks – we didn’t have enough to bother. A couple months ago our county upgraded its program. We now get tougher, bigger bags (60 delivered by mail) that we can just fill and toss into a garbage can. They will separate out the compost meaning we no longer have to take it anywhere. This is the first time we are doing it. (We used up our existing bags and took them in – we didn’t just stop composting) I hope everyone is doing it!
OOOOOOOOOO…. I wish we just had a compost place to TAKE food scraps, etc. to – let along bags to put such things in. What a great idea! Our cans are worth a dime each – no collection point for those. We also have no pick-up for recycling, but we DO have a central place to take it all. Hope the sleep cycle has normalized…
We have a compost bin for vegetable matter, but being able to get rid of all food waste is just awesome. You will have to send Traverse City government a link to Woodbury and say Do this!