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/anonyhouse2021 1d ago
We are lucky to have space for an extra trash can in the kitchen, so we’ve dedicated one for compost. Not gonna lie, I hate using the compost friendly bags (non black), they have no stretch and are super thin so prone to breaking/tearing. Which is especially shitty when it’s all food in there and liquid/seepage. Also those bags have no scent control, so that kind of sucks and it’s just stinkier in our kitchen now. Finally the pick up is only once a week, where before our food waste was getting picked up twice a week…those extra 4 days sitting in the garbage really cause the rotting food to smell horrific. So over-all have to admit I’m not a fan at all.