worm your way.

Nearly 30% of waste going to the landfill is organic.  Know what that means?  You can easily reduce the amount of waste going into landfills.  And when you do that, you reduce the amount of green space eaten up by landfills.  How?  By composing, of course! We all know the smell of compost is very unsexy and many of us don’t have big, beautiful backyards to accommodate so much waste. Most of us do have kitchens, though, which means that we can try indoor composting.Here are three ways you can try lightening your landfill load:

1) An automated composter. A fancy composter such as the Nature Mill can recycle its weight in waste every ten days. It looks sleek and doesn’t even smell! How cool is that?

2) Bokashi composting. It’s a Japanese method of starting the compost with a microorganism culture made of molasses, water, wheat bran, and some other stuff. You may want to buy a starter mixture and do a bit of research before trying this method, though.

3) Vermicomposting. This where you invite worms into your home (in secure, ventilated bins, of course!). In many cases, you can mail order the bin and the worms, but again, you’ll want to look into the ins and outs of composting with the crawlies.

If these sound a bit too intense, you can always collect scraps in a secure bucket (like a ceramic compost crock), give them away to your local community garden.