Where do I put all this crap?

In the compost bin, where else?

My wife and I keep a plastic Folger's coffee container by the sink (I don't drink Folgers, she snagged it from work when it was empty...  repurposing it, as it were).  Anything that's kitchen waste that can be composted we try to remember to put in there.  Coffee grounds, vegetable stalks, Chinese take-out rice that dried out in the fridge,  whatever.

It's not a terribly difficult thing to do.  Most of the time it doesn't save you any money or make you any money, but it's a responsible thing to do.  If you have the room (like you aren't living in an apartment) you really should think about doing this.

It's a little bit of work, but not much...  I have the square box-like structure pictured above, but I really want one of those round tumbling ones that you crank around every now and then.  The one above is in sections and you can move it around a section at a time to turn it or move it to a new location....  You can see we did a little weeding this morning.  I used the opportunity to turn some of the stuff in it around before throwing in the new potential compost.

Bottom line, it doesn't really cost you anything, but a few minutes each week.  But, if enough of us do it, it can save tons of garbage from having to be moved around by trucks, save tons of room at the landfills and it really does help the flower or vegetable beds!