Find yourself throwing away left over food scraps—like spoiled produce, eggs shells, or coffee grounds? Instead of having your food scraps rotting in a landfill and releasing methane, you can start composting which returns the nutrients back into the environment!
Composting reduces waste, greenhouse gas emissions, and help build healthy soil! By returning nutrients back into the soil through composting, we are helping create a more circular waste system. It’s important to acknowledge that food should only be composted once it can no longer be consumed.
At Home Composting Methods
Bokashi
Bokashi is microorganisms that ferments organic food waste to create fertile compost. It works by layering your food waste with a bokashi mix in an air tight bucket. This method uses little space, is odorless, and can be done inside your home. Click here to learn to start your own Bokashi Bin
Be sure to check out EM Bokashi! They are located and manufactured in Hawaiʻi. Their business principles are cooperation, creativity, and co-prosperity; providing you more use value, than taking cash value. You can find EM Bokashi at Asagi Hatchery, EM Hawaiʻi, and Koolau Farmers or shop online.
Vermicomposting
Vermicomposting uses red worms to breakdown your food waste! Add your food scraps to the bin and the worms do the work—leaving you with a nutrient rich fertilizer. Vermicomposting takes up little space, is odorless, and can be done inside your home.
Watch this Ted Ed video to learn more about vermincomposting. Click the link below to learn how to build & maintain your own worm bin.
Learn What Compost Works Best for You
There are a lot of compost systems with different pros & cons. Check out the link below to learn what compost system is best fits your lifestyle
Don’t have the time or space to start a compost?
Sign up for the weekly food waste pick up service with the Community Compost Movement
Community Compost Movement
The Community Compost Movement, founded by Changing Tides Foundation, is on a mission to make at-home composting a seamless part of the Oʻahu lifestyle while helping regenerate our island's soils and reduce our community's carbon footprint!
CCM is a weekly food-waste pick-up service. You divert your food waste, they pick it up and turn it into soil at our local farms. Their pick up service is currently limited to the North Shore, but if you live on Oʻahu you can join their drop off service in Wailua, Waimanalo, or Hawaii Kai.