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Nuclear Unicorn

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8. Is that even possible in (sub)urban environs?

Reply to Tunkamerica (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 17, 2012, 08:59 AM

Aug 2012

My husband and I have chickens so we give them our table scraps and whatnot but we live in the country. Zoning and other laws/rules may prohibit owning chickens or composting in more built-up areas.

Also, if I may be indulged in a moment of bragging -- When I lived in the city with my college roommate she and I threw out around 90 gallons of trash a week. Since I moved to the coiuntry after getting married we hardly fill-up a pair of 32 gallon cans and that's with my husband's on-going renovation work generating trash.

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a compost bin/heap is so easy. And then you need less or no fertilizers for your yard. Tunkamerica Aug 2012 #1

Is that even possible in (sub)urban environs? Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2012 #8

a compost heap? totally. you can have a composting worm bin in a small apartment Tunkamerica Aug 2012 #9

A huge part of that waste are school lunches exboyfil Aug 2012 #2

"Mrs. Obama's 'new initiative'?" Le Taz Hot Aug 2012 #3

I plan to ask my daughter to pursue it exboyfil Aug 2012 #5

How funny since Michelle grows and promotes salad gardens lunatica Aug 2012 #4

See above exboyfil Aug 2012 #7

The only folks that waste food DiverDave Aug 2012 #6