Bring back the bigger compost bucket 🪣

I need to start using one of those 5-gallon buckets again for compost at home. I’ve been using a large plastic coffee can all winter, largely because until I got the SuperDuty I had no easy way to transport a big bucket of food scraps to my parents house. But with my healthy eating, all those banana peels, egg shells, carrot tops, and apple cores quickly fill up the coffee can, plus it’s a lot easier to just drop food scrap into a bucket and it doesn’t necessarily have to be emptied every week, as it usually doesn’t smell and I have a top for it. Plus having the compost container on the counter top seems to make counter top more dirty, as sometimes I miss when flinging crap into the compost bucket.

While for a while I’ll probably keep seperating out the plastic milk jugs from the rest of burnable trash and put them in roadside bins, I am looking forward to being able to just my big trash can the way I used to – things that burn go into it and get taken care of the way us country boys do it. I might still keep the paper moslty separate a it’s good to start fires and keep it dry, and I’ll keep a separate bucket for returnable beer cans the occasional metal can or glass bottle I toss. I don’t care that much about cans, they can be pulled out of ash, but I don’t want to have to deal with too many cans up in woods, even if they do flatten good after the plastic coatings inside of them have been burnt out of them.

It’s good after that time without a truck, that winter behind us and I’ll be getting back up to woods where I can have fires. I’m not big into garbage sorting, but banana peels and apple cores don’t burn well and tin cans not at all. It would be nice to have a homestead where I can dispose of such things on-site, but at least I’ll be spending much of my summer and autumn months up in wilderness where I can have fires every night, and not watch the garbage as it piles up and accumulates before being turned into dirt, smoke, and ash.