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Let Us Compost

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Let Us Compost Offers Home Pickup Service to the Eco-Minded in Athens, Ga.

You can compost just about anything, says owner Kristen Baskin.

Planning a big Christmas dinner? Worried about what to do with the mountains of vegetable peelings? Or the vat of turkey juice? Maybe bones from a standing rib roast are your worry? Or shells from all those shrimp? And what are you going to do with your denuded Christmas tree? There's an alternative to simply dumping all this stuff in the trash can, says Kristen Baskin. She's the owner of Let Us Compost, and she wants to relieve you of all that yucky kitchen refuse. (And for $5, she will pick up the used evergreen and take it to the chipper.) For $8 to $15 a month, she'll give you a lidded container, sized to keep in the fridge, that you can fill to the brim with compostable matter. For this service, the compostable category includes even…

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