Got my neighborhood to start a compost pickup, 12 households in

Last month at the farmers market in Eugene, I was complaining to a neighbor about how much food waste we toss. She mentioned her city had a community compost drop-off, and I figured why not try it here. I posted on our block's group chat, got 12 houses to sign up for a $5 a month shared bin service. We're on week three and already filled two bins with veggie scraps and coffee grounds. Anyone else set up something like this with a local hauler or managed to keep a group going past the first month?

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rose_grant782mo ago

Damn, only 12 households and you already filled two bins in three weeks? That's a lot of scraps. We tried something similar with our cul-de-sac last year, but half the neighbors bailed after the first month because they kept forgetting which bin was theirs, and then someone tossed a moldy watermelon in there that stank up the whole alley. You got lucky everyone seems to actually use it.

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tarajenkins2mo ago

The moldy watermelon thing would've done me in too honestly, but seeing how fast these bins filled up actually changed my mind about community composting working.

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