Green Options

One morning this summer, my family and I drove to a warehouse in an industrial park on the west side of Chicago to do our eco-duty. We were finally going to buy a composting bin for our condo building. I was delighted to see we weren’t alone in that dusty parking lot. Dozens of other Chicagoans turned out to take advantage of discounted composting bins and rain barrels on offer from the

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I’ve been feeling the pressure to compost lately. Once the domain of country-dwellers, composting has come to the city in a big way. Recent news from Vancouver, Canada, reports that composting is way up, thanks to a strike by the city’s municipal workers that has stopped garbage pickup.

The benefits of composting are undeniable: reduced waste to landfills, and the result of compost is a nutrient-rich material called humus that makes the

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