🌎 Earth Day Special: 5 Things to Know about Composting in CHS
In honor of Earth Day next week, lemme tell you everything I know about how to turn your food scraps into sweet sweet compost.
Charleston has been doing a great job of expanding their residential composting program in the past year and a half, so lettuce all be a part it! 🥬 Here’s what you should know about how to make residential composting super easy.
There are now TWENTY food scrap drop sites that allow you to quickly and easily drop off things like food waste, coffee grounds, and even food-soiled paper. These are spread out across the City of Charleston, Folly Beach, Isle of Palms, Mount Pleasant and Sullivan's Island. Click here for a map to find the one closest to you, and check out Charleston Composts’ Q1 report below to learn
If you’re like…what the he** is Maddie talking about?! The city’s got you. The city of Charleston is hosting a free Zoom workshop on Earth Day, aka April 22nd, at noon. You can learn about how food scrap drop off sites work, and how to compost at home as well. Register here.
To start using the food scrap drop-off sides, you need a lock code. You can get this by signing up for the city’s residential food scrap drop-off program using their Google form. It takes a couple minutes to get through, but will teach you what can be dropped off and thus composted vs. what needs to go in the actual garbagio. Most importantly, it will give you that 🔒lock code🔒 so you can open the drop-off bins.
You can tour the city’s composting facility! If you’re already dropping off food scraps and/or just want a behind-the-scenes look at what happens to your food scraps and the rest of the city’s compostable waste, then I really encourage you to take a tour of the composting facility at Bees Ferry! We did this last year and learned so much about the scale of composting efforts in CHS, plus they give you *free compost* at the end of the tour! BYOB(s) - bring your own bucket(s). Compost facility tours are happening Saturday April 20th and Saturday May 11th, and you can register for either tour here. (If it’s warm and sunny, I would bring water and sunscreen, as you’ll be outside for a while!)
Andrew and me on a romantic date to the composting facility in April 2023. You can get the finished product, but it will cost you at least a dollar. You can buy the city’s compost, Bees Best Charleston County Compost, at a bunch of locations locally. There’s also a big ole pile at the Bees Ferry composting facility, and it’s one dollar per five-gallon bucket (again, BYOB!)
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Happy scrappin’!
Maddie