Getting Greener, One Step at a Time

I was inspired recently by a family in the Seattle area who had reduced their waste so much so that they only had to put their trash can out once a month and it was still only partially full. It got me motivated to try to reduce our waste even more. Right now we recycle so I felt the next step on our list to become more waste conscious was to start a compost bin. This has been an idea floating around the back of my head for some time now, but was never accomplished because it sounded like possibly a lot of work to set up...but I was wrong.

I googled "compost bin" a few weeks back and came across this. I couldn't believe how simple building a compost bin was. So I informed Paul of my plan, which went something like this:

    Me: I think we should build a compost bin, it's really easy.

    Paul: When you say "we" you mean "me", right?

    Me: Rrrrright...

And that was how it went. So Tuesday Paul got out one of our garbage cans we were not using and prepped it for the compost bin.

(Paul gathering leaves and dirt to start the compost bin)

(By the time Ella and I got our boots and jackets on, Paul was done. It was that simple.)

(Which left plenty of time to swing.)

(And to play in the leaves.)