Re: Composting idea

Carl,

My concern is when you say "garbage" truck. I am interpreting this as street side pick-up. If this is the case I have my concerns that the "normal" home gardener that disposes it's green waste into their recycle bin sometimes doesn't know (care/understand) what goes in what bin and with that, my reservation would be, you don't know what you shall end up getting.

Could be weeds, grass clippings, motor oil, or pesticide ridden plant material. I for one, like to know what goes into my compost. If comes from local residential pick-up I would be leery because that is where everyone seems to dump things they don't want.

Just my thoughts,

Deborah Mills
----- Original Message ----- From: "CarlHenn" <CarlHenn@comcast.net>
To: <community_garden@mallorn.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:00 PM
Subject: [cg] Composting idea


We are starting a community garden in Rockville, Maryland and are kicking
around ideas about composting. One idea is to put in a chain link fence bin
big enough to dump a garbage truck load of leaves into. Our city pays $36
dollars a ton to get rid of yard waste. If a garbage truck carries 20 cubic
yards and a cubic yard weighs 500 pounds, one truck load would cost $180 to
get rid of. We could save them that amount and get free compostable leaves
and grass clippings. 20 cubic yards should fit in a bin 10 by 15 by 5 feet
high, big enough to back the truck into and dump the yard waste.

This is all based on internet research rather than experience. Has anyone
tried something like this? Any words of wisdom to share?

Carl Henn


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