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> Compost food scraps rather than throwing them away. I wonder: my neighborhood has some common area that I could ask that we set aside for composting. Have a

• lucb1e 7y ago
  In Germany, the municipality maintains those. Bio waste is picked up every two weeks or so. We have a large (5x5x13dm or so) container that we share with our upstairs neighbors and is mainly filled with mowed grass and kitchen waste, though I think we only fill it up once every month and a half, or maybe two months, and that's in summer when the grass grows. In fall, there are also solutions for fallen leaves, but I don't remember what (we've lived here less than a year, I vaguely remember reading it but I've yet to see it). In the Netherlands, they put collection baskets (of like 1x1x1m) on many streets in that season.