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GIGO Diary, for 2008-03-17: Even unpaid bills go in compost Take a look at the accompanying picture of a week's trash from Tucker's Station Farms which will go to he landfill, then do the math: If everybody in Adair County used the Armitage's program, there would be practically no need for an Adair County Solid Waste transfer station. Garbage haulers would find more lucrative work hauling recycled material. The City of Columbia would save a big portion of the city's budget, gas wasted by hauling excess garbage (what isn't composted; recycled material would still need to be hauled) and teh equivalent of one new small industry would be born in Adair County. -CM By Barbara Armitage GIGO Diary of a Recycler: Everyday we are going to follow my garbage to see just how close I can come to eliminating my contribution the landfills in America Today is Monday March 17, 2008. Posted 2008-03-18 St. Paddy's Day is the perfect day to go green. To celebrate we bought 4 new trees for the yard. Let's finish up your new compost pile today you won't believe the things that you have in your house that can be composted. If you had a St. Patrick's Day party yesterday and don't know what to do with the left over green beer put it in the compost. You shouldn't put the left over Corned Beef in because meat smells and draws animals but the taties and cabbage and the soda bread can be added. While you're in the kitchen look around for organic items. The paper towels and the cardboard roll they came on can be added. That bowl of unrecognizable food in the back of the refrigerator and the crumbs in the bottom of the toaster are fine. Toss in the Post It note reminding you to go to the dentist and the moldy cheese anything that is made of organic material will decompose. In your bedroom there's stuff you never thought of. Your husband's old cotton T shirts and that pair of underwear with the hole in it. If it's cotton or wool in it goes. Who doesn't have a few dust bunnies under the bed that need to come out? We get a constant supply of junk mail remember that all paper can go to the compost except the slick colored type just be sure to remove any plastic. If you're concerned about identity theft shred your paper and then compost it not even the guys from CSI can put that back together again. I know that you don't have the time to run to the yard every time you get a piece of paper to compost so I suggest a compost bag. I have a brown paper bag right next to my tiny trash can in the kitchen I toss in compostable items and then the whole thing gets dropped in the compost when it's full. Grocery stores still have paper bags but you have to ask for them. This time of year our compost bins are getting plenty of rain water to keep them moist when summer gets here you may need to wet it down once in a while the mixture should be moist but not standing in water. If you're one of those people who can't leave nature alone to do her work you can get yourself a pitch fork and work up a sweat turning your compost. It does help speed up the process a bit but in the end the compost will be the same. I work two 12'x12' bins and I never turn it. When my bin is full or at the end of the year which ever comes first I lay a soaker hose over the top of the pile and then cover the whole thing with black plastic. Over the next year I let the soaker hose run for about 30 minutes every week or so to keep everything moist and the plastic helps keep the heat in. Another thing I have never taken my composts temperature and never will. I can understand doing that in a commercial operation but not for the small compost pile at home. Here are a few more items to add to your compost:
Here's what happened to the rest of the day's garbage. Recycle
The next largest will go to the Adair Recycling Center, 62 Service Road, Columbia, KY.Only a tiny amount will go into the landfill. REMINDER: Recycle 101 to be offered at Adair Extension Office Barbara Armitage of the Garden Club and Kelli Bonifer of the Adair County Extension Service and and are collaborating to offer Recycle 101 on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 10:00amCT. A guest lecturer will be famed Kentucky environmentalist A.L. Sinclair. The seminar will train those who attend the ABC's of Recycling. The purpose of the course is to train Adair County more about living responsibly by recycling and reducing energy use. It will wrap up the Earth Day celebrations in April. The course is designed to train trainers who will in turn train neighbors until everyone in Adair County is a recycler. For more information contact Barbara Armitage at (270) 250-2979 or Kelli Bonifer at (270) 384-2317. The Adair Extension Service is located at 417 Fairgrounds Street, Columbia, KY. This story was posted on 2008-03-18 06:51:50
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