Last Drop

Last compost drop of 2016!

Morning temperature: 24 degrees

Steps: 11,032

Food Scraps

The sign is a bit curled up and it's not always posted but this is one of the places I dump my compost. The little Farmer's Market was very sparse today. I suppose the weekend after Thanksgiving is not a very big vegetable buying time...especially with people out of town.

It was gray with a few snowflakes now and then in 30 degree weather.

Commuter Composting

This totebag is my gift for Commuter Compost Appreciation Week. (Is it weird that it came in a plastic bag?)

This was Commuter Composter Appreciation Week. The Commuter Compost Project involves a few drop off points set up at some subway stops to make it easy to drop off food scraps to be composted. The project has 3 locations and they figure 410 households have been using the program and dropping off just over 1.5 tons of food scraps during this beginning period. Keeping that much out of the landfills is a good thing in itself but the compost also is used in green spaces around the city.

I am lucky enough to have compost drop offs within walking distance on 6 days a week although the closest Commuter Compost Drop operates only on Tuesday and Thursday. It seems like such a simple thing to do for a big environmental payoff. Thank you Lower East Side Ecology Center!

Morning temperature: 29 degrees
Steps: 13,319