Compost and recycle your waste

You can use food scraps and waste to make your own compost bin.
Recycle containers your food comes in.
Check with your city about ways to help you find composting or recycling options. Your city or the farms around you may collect food waste. Check with your city or people around you before throwing fruits and vegetables away.

All composting requires three basic ingredients:

Browns - This includes materials such as dead leaves, branches, and twigs.
Greens - This includes materials such as grass clippings, vegetable waste, fruit scraps, and coffee grounds.
Water - Having the right amount of water, greens, and browns is important for compost development.

What goes in?

Your compost pile should have an equal amount of browns to greens. You should also alternate layers of organic materials of different-sized particles.
Fruits, Vegetables, Eggshells, Nutshells
Coffee Grounds, Coffee Filters, Teabags
Newspaper, Cardboard, Paper (Shredded)
Yard and Grass Trimmings, Houseplants
Leaves, Hay, Straw, Sawdust, Woodchips
Cotton, Wool Rags, Dryer and Vacuum Cleaner Lint
Hair, Fur, Fireplace Ashes

ABC's of outside composting

Choose between bin or pile: A pile is great for leaves and grass clippings, but if you want to add food waste, then a bin will prevent rodents.
Choose your space: Choose a dry, shady, or partly shady spot near a water source. Three feet wide by three feet deep is enough.
Start with yard trimmings, then add food scraps and paper.