# Compost/Recycling **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 24, 2010, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compost-recycling/152131 "2010-03-24T12:45:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compost-recycling/152131/1 "2010-03-24T12:45:32Z")
I’d like to start using kitchen scraps and such as compost. What’s the best way of doing it? Anyone do the worm composting stuff? Seems like a good idea and a good way to recycle some shit. ---
**Author:** ![copperlegend](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/copperlegend/32/7445_2.png) [@copperlegend](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/copperlegend)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compost-recycling/152131/2 "2010-03-24T13:08:45Z")
I’m picking up my compost tumbler next weekend from a friend that moved away and didn’t want to take it with her (SCORE!). It’s a super easy way to do it, but the things are ridiculously expensive. I’d just build a compost bin, otherwise. > **[Compost Bins](http://www.instructables.com/id/Composting/)** > > We've got Instructables on compost bins, compost barrels, compost sifters, compost turners, and straight up how to compost - pretty much everything you need to... Great info about vermicomposting (with worms). Yes, it’s from a gardening forum full of chicks, but it’s good info [http://www.yougrowgirl.com/garden/vermicomposting.php](http://www.yougrowgirl.com/garden/vermicomposting.php) Stuff you can compost that you probably didn’t think you could: > **[You Grow Girl - Things You Can Compost That You Didn’t Think You Could](http://yougrowgirl.com/things-you-can-compost-that-you-didnt-think-you-could/)** > > While writing the composting section for the new book, it occurred to me that my list in book one was rather incomplete and only covered some of the things we compost at home. There’s a surpr… ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compost-recycling/152131/3 "2010-03-24T13:27:51Z")
the second link is what I’m looking to do. It doesn’t mention adding dirt…do I need to add regular dirt or no? Also is there a place to get a bunch of these worms? Like 100 of them. ---
**Author:** ![copperlegend](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/copperlegend/32/7445_2.png) [@copperlegend](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/copperlegend)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compost-recycling/152131/4 "2010-03-24T13:33:21Z")
Nope, you don’t add dirt. The newspapers and food turn into the dirt, as far as I know. Check craigslist in the farm and garden section, I know there are a couple listing in Rochester like this one [http://rochester.craigslist.org/grd/1652132363.html](http://rochester.craigslist.org/grd/1652132363.html). Local garden stores may have them, too. ---
**Author:** ![rex2nr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rex2nr/32/5462_2.png) [@rex2nr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rex2nr)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compost-recycling/152131/5 "2010-03-24T18:23:35Z")
I tried it with leaves, food scraps, paper, wood scraps/sawdust, etc. I found an article online suggesting to take a garbage bin and cut slots through it… basically just stab it with a utility knife to allow it to breathe without leaking. Then add equal amounts top soil to compost-able material. One bin is doing OK, the other 2… they aren’t doing anything. ---
**Author:** ![Hass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@Hass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hass)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compost-recycling/152131/6 "2010-03-24T18:24:34Z")
Just put up some on your property chicken wire and dump all your fucking garbage in it so the mice eat it then dig in to your neighbors new garage! don’t worry about covering it, because people who have buddies on the village board don’t need to follow common peoples laws. Fucking douchebags. My parents backyard smells like dogshit (oh well they have dogs they dont clean up after, and when they do they dump it in the compost), rats everywhere, parents complained about it, but he was buddies with the guy that came out, so he just shot the shit with the guy for 30 mins then he drove away. Glad I don’t live there anymore, but fuck. Inconsiderate assholes. ---
**Author:** ![copperlegend](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/copperlegend/32/7445_2.png) [@copperlegend](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/copperlegend)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compost-recycling/152131/7 "2010-03-25T18:28:11Z")
oh gross! you’re not supposed to put feces from dogs or cats in there because they’re carnivorous. Rabbit/chicken crap is ok for compost. NO meat scraps, that could be what attracted the rats/mice. Ugh, people are idiots. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compost-recycling/152131/8 "2010-03-26T05:41:13Z")
I found our shredder at work, shreds stuff into really small strips, so it should work great for worms…I also read on another site that it’s not how deep the container is, it’s the length. I’m going to try one of my rubbermaid ones later ---
**Author:** ![copperlegend](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/copperlegend/32/7445_2.png) [@copperlegend](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/copperlegend)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compost-recycling/152131/9 "2010-03-26T06:15:08Z")
Neat. Tell me how it goes, I might give it a shot this year. Once I get over the whole “ew, gross, worms!” part of it, haha. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compost-recycling/152131/10 "2010-03-26T07:08:49Z")
I gotta get some worms, and I don’t feel like driving to Rah cha cha, to get a handful of worms…I might call around pet shops or try and find something local. ---
**Author:** ![rex2nr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rex2nr/32/5462_2.png) [@rex2nr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rex2nr)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compost-recycling/152131/11 "2010-04-06T16:53:20Z")
> [@Hass](#): > > Just put up some on your property chicken wire and dump all your fucking garbage in it so the mice eat it then dig in to your neighbors new garage! > don’t worry about covering it, because people who have buddies on the village board don’t need to follow common peoples laws. > > Fucking douchebags. > > My parents backyard smells like dogshit (oh well they have dogs they dont clean up after, and when they do they dump it in the compost), rats everywhere, parents complained about it, but he was buddies with the guy that came out, so he just shot the shit with the guy for 30 mins then he drove away. > Glad I don’t live there anymore, but fuck. > Inconsiderate assholes. Yea, thats not composting, thats just retarded. A real compost pile or bin should smell like dirt.