How Can I Compost?

Food Scrap Composting Programs:

Depending on where you live, your very own town or city might have a composting program such as drop-off or curbside pickup (click here if you live in Westchester, NY). For a drop-off service, you must bring your food scraps to your town's drop-off site or collection facility and then they will handle the composting. Depending on their services, they might even offer to give away compost for free afterward! Great! For curbside pick-up, you should put the food scraps outside your house for collection just as you do for recycling. Make sure to check in with your town for details!

Food Scrap Composting at Home:

Composting at home can be more work than sending food scraps to a composting facility, but just as beneficial. It will take much longer to compost at home. You must have someplace to put your food scraps. This place must be a bin or pile outside or in your yard. You would have to make sure the food scraps have air and water.  You also might need help from animals like worms that decompose food scraps.  

This is the list of materials that you shouldn't put in your pile at home: Produce stickers, medication oils /fats, dairy products, diseased plants, meat, eggs, bones,  fish, pet waste, or any non-compostable plastic products.  By the way, biodegradable does not mean compostable!

Check out the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation site on how to compost at home.