Step 1. Select Food Scrap

For composting at home, start by simply selecting food. It can be tea bags, veggies, or wilted flowers. However, when choosing materials to compost, you must be mindful of what you can or cannot compost at home. Some products may have written compost-friendly on them, like wipes. But products like those can only be composted in industrial facilities. Moreover, we have mentioned the products you can and cannot compost below for your ease!

Step 2: Store the Food Scrap

When storing kitchen scraps, your compost must be layered. As a result, the process of decomposition will speed up. You do not need any luxury containers to store; it can be a carton of milk. Hence, once you are done peeling the onions, put the peels right away in the container. To avoid any insects and bad odors, you can store them in the freezer.

Step 3. Choose Compost Bin

Now, the question arises: what is the ideal place for storing compost? Your backyard, or a community garden, would work. However, if you do not have access to either, you can simply sign up for services that pick up your kitchen scrap. Lucky for you, Trash It got you covered. Our Trash on Wheelz is a waste collection service that ensures your waste is processed. Moreover, if you do have access to outdoor space, you can just simply put this all in a compost bin.

Step 4: Compost Mix

The compost mix may sound intimidating, but trust us, it is not! The compost mix includes the greens and the browns, which are ingredients required for your compost mix.  

The greens—the wet material for compost—are the vegetables and fruit peelings. Since microorganisms do most of the composting work, greens are essential for microbial growth.

The browns—the dry material of compost—include paper or cartons.

When you are layering up the compost, you should put greens above the browns.

The question arises: what is the ratio of browns to greens? The ratio would be 4 browns: 1–2 greens. 

For your ease, we have mentioned all the browns and greens down below.

Step 5: Aerating

One of the main concerns regarding composting is how long it is going to take to decompose. Well, that depends on the climate! If it is hot, you will have your compost ready in about 2 months. However, in winter, it will take roughly a year. Considering you want the material to break down completely,

Here is what you need to do while waiting for it to decompose. You need to keep rotating the layers. This will help keep the air flowing so that your compost can grow. Moreover, make sure when you are adding water after each pile, it is not too soggy.