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cover your scrapskeep flies & odors off limits
Flies and odors develop when food scraps are left exposed. By covering your scraps completely with mulch you keep flies and odors off-limits.
a perfect scrap drop
Check out this perfectly covered scrap drop. No scraps showing and the cart is ready to be locked up so the next person can safely open the cart without risking their senses.
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Download this poster Watch this video on WHAT GOES IN YOUR BUCKET Consult the What's Rotin Database on the Rot On app click on image
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TIPS TO PEST PROOF
Follow these steps to reduce pests and odors from your scrap collection container. 1. 💡 Keep your scrap collection pail locked tight at all times. 2. 💡 Don't keep scraps inside your kitchen for more than a couple of days. Transfer scraps into a larger container that is placed outside - in your yard or patio. 3. 💡 Sprinkle mulch, ash or charcoal on your scraps to reduce odors, flies and insects. Mulch is available at every dropoff hub for Food2Soil dropoff program participants. Pick up a few handfuls of mulch the next time you are there to dropoff your scraps. 4.💡 If you aren't able to dropoff your scraps with your composter every week then consider freezing them until you are ready to drop them off. 5. 💡 If ants take interest in your collection container place the entire bucket or container inside a pool of water. If you are a gardener and have access to Diatomaceous Earth then consider sprinkling it around your container to keep insects at bay. |
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Watch this video on setting up a simple scrap collection system |
Twisty ties, produce stickers, rubberbands, gloves, produce bags (plastic & biodegradable & compostable) are all contaminants and need to be removed before building a pile. We’d appreciate if you discard these items in your kitchen itself so they don’t travel into collection pails, dropoff carts and compost piles. Thankyou! |