Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
Here in WI it's a two-bin system. The biggest impact on our garbage size, however, has been the composting. We're dumping all non-meat leftovers into a composting system we rigged up, with an eye toward free fertilizer for our gardens. THis has really lowered the size of our weekly bin.
We do that too. We have a fairly large garden and about a pail of compost every two days, and much more when we're harvesting from our garden or cooking a lot so it definitely makes a big impact on the amount of garbage that we produce.