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Have Your Compost Picked Up at Your Apartment

9th June, 2010 - Posted by carsi - No Comments

I posted awhile ago about how I’ve been collecting compostable materials in a bucket under my sink and walking it over to the Downtown Farmers Market each week. It’s been working out pretty well for me, but there are some parts of the process that aren’t completely ideal, like making sure I get over there by 1:00 every Saturday and dealing with the bucket that can get a little gross through the course of a week. So if hauling the compost to the farmers market just isn’t working out for you, Margaret, one of our readers, suggested using a new local company, Green Bucket Composting. They will come to your apartment and pick up your compost for you–how convenient is that? They also provide you with a container with a charcoal filter that keeps it from being too smelly and biodegradable garbage bags for easy clean up. Their prices are really reasonable at just $3.50 per week if you sign up for a whole year, or you can sign up for half a year, a quarter of a year, or just month by month. So simple and so green!