Compost Food Waste Without Your Own Compost Bin

Finding compost facilities is easier with this online tool

Did you know you can compost food waste without your own compost bin?  In an ideal world, we’d all compost food scraps and coffee grounds and use the rich result to amend our gardens and/or pots.

But if you don’t have the space for a compost bin (or are simply not inclined to take up space in your kitchen to save leftover food), you can look up public composting facilities to prevent biodegradable items from heading to the landfill.

Keeping food waste out of the garbage is much simpler with this free, searchable directory of composting facilities in the U.S. and Canada, hosted by BioCycle magazine and the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI): FindAComposter.com.

Composting food is one of the easiest ways to live green.  When you toss food in the garbage, it releases the greenhouse gas methane when it decomposes in the landfill.  But food scraps are filled with nutrients that can enrich soils – composting is the ultimate recycling practice!

Watch this cool video of a municipal composting facility:

Its now easier than ever to compost food waste without your own compost bin.  At FindAComposter.com, all you have to do is enter your zip code, city or state, choose your location (U.S. or Canada) and composting facilities within a 50-mile radius of your home or business will be listed.  You can also search for facilities by their name on the website.

Did you know that you can also find composting facilities with social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook?  That’s right… simply search “composting facilities” and voila!  Now, there’s more than one way to dig up dirt on the Internet!