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Drop Off Compost at the Downtown Farmers Market

3rd May, 2010 - Posted by carsi - 4 Comments

As I’ve written about before, I have been experimenting with composting in an apartment. Composting is an easy way to keep biodegradable items out of the landfill, but I don’t have the space to start my own compost pile. So instead, I’ve put an old bucket with a lid under my sink to collect all the vegetable scraps, tea bags, and other compostable items that accumulate over the week. Before, I was making the trip to a small community garden to drop off these items in their compost pile, but another option is to take it to the Downtown Austin Farmers Market on Saturday mornings. The lovely people at Wheatsville Co-op are sponsoring three Drop Spots at the Saturday market where a volunteer will help you sort out your recyclables, compostables, and trash. Since I go there most Saturdays to stock up on local veggies anyway, it was very convenient. This is simple and quick and a great way to be green!

4 Comments

Margaret

June 4th, 2010 at 10:45 am    

I came across your post on apartment composting and thought you might like to know about a great new company here in Austin. They are called Green Bucket Composting and they offer weekly pickup of compostables for people in apartments. There service is quite reasonable and it might be something your other readers would like to know about. It is around 3.50 a week and I can spend that on coffee…

Anyway thanks for your wonderful posts on greening Austin. I hope everyone reads it and is as inspired as I am.

Margaret

carsi

June 4th, 2010 at 4:06 pm    

Hi Margaret,

What a great company–I will definitely look into it and post about it soon. Thanks so much for the info and the kind words!

Greening Austin Daily » Have Your Compost Picked Up at Your Apartment

June 9th, 2010 at 8:46 am    

[...] posted awhile ago about how I’ve been collecting compostable materials in a bucket under my sink and [...]

Jeremy Croke

January 4th, 2012 at 3:26 pm    

Thanks for all of the great info on composting found here on this website! I work with BreakitDown, a local recycling and composting service here in Austin. We provide the composting hauling service for the downtown SFC farmers market, Wheatsville Coop as well as 80 or so other local businesses in town. We provide residential compost hauling services and full stream recycling, which includes all the regular items (glass, plastic, metal) plus aseptic packaging, plastic bags, and polystyrene! We would enjoy having a conversation with you about the work we’re doing here in Austin.
http://www.Breakitdownaustin.org

Happy Composting!

Jeremy

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