Still too much waste

If you have been reading my other posts then you will know that not so long ago I started a major push to make myself recycle more. So far this has been going really well. I've even got my girlfriend into it as well and it's now becoming second nature to put recyclable stuff into the card board boxes I've put by, rather than just put them in the bin.

I still think that we're creating too much waste. While our bin has significantly less in it at the end of each fortnight it still has quite a lot.

After having a quick look at what we don't recycle it seems that we mostly throw away food skins etc. So basically the waste from meal preparation, vegetable skins, bits of fruit.

Therefore I've decided that it's time to get a composting bin. I've been looking into it and our local council offer them at a highly reduced price with a free book on how to compost.

We even have a good use for it. Last year my girlfriend decided to have a go at growing some of her own veg in pots in our back garden (we rent and can't dig up the garden). As a first try it was pretty successful and we got a good few meals worth of veg from it. So next year we're probably going to give it another try using what we learnt last time round to hopefully make things a little more successful, and if we get the composting bin then this time round we'll have some nice home made compost to fertilise everything with. Both my girlfriend and I really like the idea of organic produce and are currently trying to move as much of the food we buy over to organic as we can.

So once the Christmas holidays roll on and I've got some time off work to go and collect a bin we'll be able to start our composting. Hopfully this will have a significant impact on the amount of waste that goes in the bin.