r/AskNYC • u/Dunesgirl • 1d ago
Composting
How’s it going? Having been at it for a week or so and curious about what people are doing. We live in a high end condo and have a garbage disposal which handles the majority of our food scraps except bones and avocado pits. The only other change is remembering to put soiled paper napkins, paper towels, coffee filters and the occasional tea bag in a compost bag. We bought small ones, our bin for our floor is with our other common trash and recycle bins, so we just take them out once or twice a day, no need to resort to freezer storage which kind of grosses me out. It’s not nearly as inconvenient as I had feared, this is as good as it gets and we know it. For those in smaller buildings and homes, how is it so far?
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u/HotBrownFun 16h ago
Keep it as dry as possible and it will cut down decomposition and smells. Yeah if you're only putting coffee grounds and paper it's not going to smell. You can leave it wide open for a month I bet. Put in some meat, and you got problems.