We found out recently that our apartment building offers composting. I can put things in compost at work, but we've never done it at home. Some people have their own composting bins at home so that they can use the fertile soil that comes from it. Residents in our building can just put their compost in a separate bin and some company picks it up.

Food scraps are the main thing that is compostable. We eat a lot of vegetables and there are always unused portions for composting. We also just finished a bag of Sun Chips, which are now sold in a compostable bag, and were happy to put the bag in compost instead of adding to our landfill-bound trash.

We already have bags to put our recyclables and our regular trash in, but we don't yet have a place for a composting bag, so we'll need to figure that out soon. It's too bad we didn't take advantage of this over the past couple years, but it's nice that there's another way in which we can reduce our negative impact on the planet.