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Article: Efficient plan for waste ; Sawmill operator designs economic compost bin
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- Concord Monitor
- Article date:
- August 31, 2009
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Concord's pay-as-you-throw program has a lot of people thinking
about what they toss in the trash each week - and what they don't
have to. Kitchen waste, for example. It got Joe Colby, who runs a
Boscawen sawmill with his brother, Jim, thinking about how he could
help.
Many people living in downtown Concord have little space in their
yards for composting. And many compost bins on the market cost $100
or more. So Colby came up with a compact, low-cost alternative: a
slatted white pine box that lets in the air needed to turn cabbage
leaves and carrot tops into compost but keeps the critters out.
Colby is selling the box to local garden centers and grocery
stores. It's convenient for the ...