Got yard waste? Ok, so you have an apartment and no yard. Well, do you have food scraps? Mmmm, so you eat out all the time. Shooooot-- go on and tell you friends about this, then. Seattle is recycling yard waste and food scraps. Yay! The city is almost half way to its goal of getting new easier-to-use receptacles out there for people to take advantage of this cool new program. Cuz guess where the yard waste and food scraps go if they're not composted...

The landfill.

Seattle Times has the full scoop, as well as the nitty gritty of how to compost with the city (like what food counts and where to store your food scraps). More below the fold.

Seattle's recycling plan to distribute 90,000 of its new yard-waste and food-scraps carts is halfway to its goal, with 45,000 of the large containers already out there.

Under the plan, residents may put food scraps and food-soiled paper along with yard waste into the 96-gallon wheeled containers. For example, wet paper towels can now go into the yard-waste carts well as bread and cooked pasta. No meat or dairy products can go into the cart. Those items still go in your garbage bin.

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