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Justin - Dig (he/him): So welcome to the week one workshop. This is going to deal with composting in small spaces. So I'm sure a lot of you were discussing in your breakout rooms.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): That it's hard to compost, like, especially if your apartment complex or at your house like there are accomplished services. So this is going to be kind of talking about how you can work around that and take it into your own hands.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So,

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Justin - Dig (he/him): We are going to launch the next slide.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So this is kind of just an overview of what we're going to cover and so like I said, generally we have numbers in the actual garden composting. We're kind of adapting that to

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Like what you guys can do at home on your own. And we'll kind of go from like big to small in terms of like how much space you would need, and this will kind of cover different benefits different methods. And then we're also going to have a discussion on food waste at the end.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And here's some pictures of our over me code and post workshop which is composting with worms that we're going to talk about in a bit. And then here's some finished compost from our garden as well.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Okay, so the first method is probably the one that you're most familiar with. And this is kind of what we do in the garden as well on a larger scale, but you could kind of scale it down to your own. I mean,

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Yard, or even carport so we're going to kind of talk like that. And so these piles, you want to have a big enough pile. If you're doing a pile method that it's going to be able to get hot enough.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And it's going to be able to retain enough moisture so you don't want to. I know it's tempting, but you don't want to just like do this in a five gallon bucket.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Or in like a little jar or stuff because it's going to take forever. And it's probably not going to work too well and

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Yeah, we'll just kind of I have notes here and then also if there's if you guys want more information on this stuff afterwards. Just do me in the slack and I'll send you like one page kind of resources with more information.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So yeah, starting with the first bullet point you want to really balance your green and brown materials. So in the garden or green materials or like any plants that we just pulled out.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): food scraps that our members bring or food scraps that we get from the plate.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): But at your house. It's you're going to have limited stuff, especially if you have a smaller garden, you're not going to have as many green scraps from that and

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So I mean for the average like apartment. I would say that your green is going to be food scraps coffee grounds tea bags, you know, any like eggshells and kind of food waste. You want to not put in oils meats, dairy,

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Any other fats, and then I would just avoid cooked foods in general because they're just going to smell terrible and there's also attract rodents, which you don't want and then you're also going to want to balance that with brown so brown and the garden is like leaves twigs.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): You know, dead plants, but in the apartment. It's really easy, especially now since we're ordering a lot one line and stuff like cardboard. I'm sure it's very easy to find in your apartment.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Paper.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): You know, just shredded down. You don't want glossy paper by any like newspaper or just regular paper is fine and yeah any paper towels. Awesome work just as long as they don't have those those creases on them.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And then you're also going to want to balance the water. So you want to make sure that you have enough water in your pal. That's kind of like

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Justin - Dig (he/him): The moisture of of running out sponge. So you don't want to wet but you also don't want it to dry. And the reason you don't want it to wet is because the compost pile.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Is aerobics so that means that it uses air and you're going to want to make sure air is getting in there and if it's two way kind of drowns pile and that starts to smell terrible so

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Yeah, and that's actually I think a lot of people overcomplicate composting, but that's

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Justin - Dig (he/him): It's kind of like cooking in a way like you just have to kind of pay attention to the signs like is it smelling good is it looking good. Is it getting hot enough and

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Those are kind of the main ways I would troubleshoot a compost pile. And so if it's

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Smelling really bad. That means you have too much green stuff. So you're going to want to add more brown more shredded paper and cardboard.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And if it's not composting at all. If it's not getting caught if nothing's breaking down. That means you don't have enough green stuff or you don't have enough water.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And so you just kind of fix that. And you don't have to get it all perfect the first time a lot of people like really worried about their ratios of green to brown

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Justin - Dig (he/him): But I would start at like a third of the stuff should be green, and then two thirds should be brown and cost that it just kind of watch it and see if you need to add more of other stuff. It doesn't need to be perfect right when you set up the pile. You can always add later and

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And you're also. So, this bullet point here. You're also going to want to cut materials to a small size, and this just makes it break down faster.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And you don't want it to smell like you don't want it to be ground up or anything, because then air can't get in. So I'd say like a good size is an inch or two, and you're just want to cut

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Like all your scraps down to that size so

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And then I put a note on here that you want to turn it or not. And this really just depends how much time you want to leave it for so

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Justin - Dig (he/him): There are methods where you don't have to turn it at all, you just build the pile and you let it sit or you kind of continue adding to the top and then

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Take away from the bottom. It really just depends how fast you want that finished compost out of there.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So if you turn it frequently like if you're turning it every other week, or every week you can get finished compost that looks like this, this dumb here and like three months. Whereas if you just leave it in a pile and you don't touch it, it can take up to like 18 months so

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Justin - Dig (he/him): If you have a lot of food scraps. I definitely recommend turning it just so you can accommodate more and you're like, kind of moving it through faster, but if you have less than I would say just saying it's it's totally fine.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Yeah. And then I made

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Notes of like what to limit and you'll see the bottom point there is diseased plants and weeds, you really don't want to put those in because

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Justin - Dig (he/him): For the most part, your pile isn't going to get that hot that like it will kill a weed seeds or it will kill whatever disease or, you know, on your plants. So I would just not put those in

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And and then you're also going to want to cover. So that's super easy. You can just buy a tarp. A lot of compost systems like if you buy one it will have a cover on it.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And you can see here, like this is kind of a system setup for building that pile and just laying sit and then it has a door at the bottom where you would, you know, get your finished compost out

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Maybe in six to 12 months of letting it sit and stuff. And then this one is really for, like, if you have a lot of food scraps and he wanted to go really fast because you just turn it all the time.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And it's super easy to turn and it will pump out that compost really quickly.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So to kind of recap on this slide, you're really just trying to balance, air, water and then greens and browns. And that's really all you have to worry about. And as long as you have a big enough pile, like a few feet in and within a few feet in height, it's going to work out fine.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Just make sure I wasn't gonna say anything else. Okay.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So that brings us to our second method. So if you don't have room outside to do the first method. And this is a really great way to kind of compost in a kitchen compost in an apartment even like your cardboard. You can put this in. And this uses worms to break down your food scraps so

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Justin - Dig (he/him): You're going to need a been like this and it doesn't have to be fancy. You'll see fancy systems like this and I'll explain why those are nice, but you definitely don't need that starting out.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): I, I started with something, just like this, and it works fine. So you don't need to spend a ton of money on this.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Yeah, you're, you're going to want to think of placements. So you want to keep it in a cool area because you kind of live between like 60 and 80 degrees, where it's being kept so

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Inside an apartment works just fine. And usually if it's like a covered area like a carport you'll also work fine. If it gets too cold. A usually just slows down the composting, and then if it gets too hot, it can actually kill the ones because they don't like keep

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So yeah, you're going to want to keep it out of rain and keep it out of excess moisture and then also keep it out of hot areas.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So also think about heating your apartment, like, make sure that you're not playing it next to a heater or something because those hotspots can definitely kilo your worms.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And you're also going to make sure that has air circulation. So that's why on these systems like you see holes on the side of the container here because you really want air gang and they're

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Justin - Dig (he/him): The ones are going to produce carbon dioxide and if if it can't escape, then it will kill them arms.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And then, yeah, thinking about containers. So you want to shallow because surface area is really important. You really want that.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): oxygen exchange again, kind of like the old system like this, the system really needs air to be in it for it to work because the worms need to breathe and then carbon dioxide needs to be able to get out.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And you're going to want about a square foot of surface area per pound of food waste per week.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So I actually would recommend like tracking how much food waste your you have in your apartment before setting up a system like this to kind of learn how much you're going to need to accommodate all of your waist.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And that can be super easy like it only takes a week to kind of see how much waste your producer.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And then it can be built out of wood or plastic so I always recommend this plastic bin method just because it's super easy and a lot of people already have plastic bins kind of sitting around

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Justin - Dig (he/him): The one thing about this method that would change is like putting a lid underneath to just collect extra moisture and I would also drill some holes in the bottom but this works pretty well.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And you can also build it out of wood. So like here someone built one out of wood.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And there's a lot where, like, people just turn a wine barrel on his side and kind of in half and then it kind of opens up to have worms in it.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And you can also get really creative this book here is kind of like the Bible of worm composting, and will be giving out away. Well, we'll be giving away a copy of this later in the workshop, so stay around for that and

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Justin - Dig (he/him): But the author of this Mary. She talks about how she's made furniture. So like benches that sit in her living room that are very complex things and you know you can get really creative with this because it doesn't smell. If you're doing it right. It won't smell.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And and then for betting. You can use shredded newspaper or coconut core, I recommend just doing shred newspaper, because it's free. You can go

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Justin - Dig (he/him): On campus and get Daily Bruin. That's what I use for my then and it works just fine. You can use like free newspapers from

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Other places. Just make sure that you're not playing in glossy

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Paper, like the ad paper or any stickers you don't really want that in your bed and you're just going to want to like soak in a bucket of water and then kind of wring it out just like you kind of want that the wrong house sponge oyster content again.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And then for worms. You're really going to want to make sure you're getting the right type, because if you just put worms from your garden in there, they will not do anything. They'll just move around and

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Move your food scraps around good not really compost it. So you're going to want to make sure to buy red ones.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And you're going to want two pounds of worms per pound of garbage you're putting in

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And I went, worry as much about getting the exact right amount of worms at the beginning because they will multiply on their own. As long as there's food in there.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So you can really start out with a small amount of worms. Just know if you're starting with a small amount of forms, you're going to have to start with less garbage and I'm kind of work up

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Justin - Dig (he/him): To them, you can have in there and then harvesting of the compost is super easy, because you can just take the finished compost out and put it in.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): You know the garden, you can put in planters and doesn't really matter forms are in there because they're going to be fine in the soil, wherever you put them

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And I also just wanted to talk about what you can put in a woman because I think that's going to really affect like what method. People use

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And so we're bins are kind of similar to regular compost piles where you don't want to put meat or dairy or anything too acidic release. So I would avoid like citrus peels and

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Yeah. Just, just keep out like cooked foods and fats and oils.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): If you're not too into worms. There's other methods that you can do in an apartment that don't have live animals in them and

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So this is akashi and I've actually just started kind of experimenting with this. I've never tried it before, like two months ago. So it's very new to me but Oh, definitely.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): I think it's a cool method to trial if anyone's interested

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And this method uses fermentation. So you're actually kind of pickling all of your food scraps.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And then what you can do with that after is put it into the ground. So you're going to bury it in your yard or something and or you can put it into your regular compost pile afterwards. But so in that sense. Like it doesn't really break down your food scraps. The full way. It's not like

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Normal composting where you're going to get like a nutrient rich soil builder after but you are going to get this

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Justin - Dig (he/him): This book Kashi tea which is it smells terrible, but it makes a great fertilizer for your plants and you dilute like a tablespoon of it and a gallon of water and then you could water all your house plants and stuff.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So a little different in terms of like what it, what it actually does to your food scraps, but it's still a really cool method to try and this is really cool because you can put in those needs, you can plan the dairy. You can even put small bones.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And all those oils and stuff. So you really don't have to like limit what you're putting in which is really nice.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And and this takes two weeks to it's also really quick because it's anaerobic so you just put all your scraps and fill it up.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And then close it up and you leave it for two weeks and it's going to produce this liquid for you. And then at the end, it's going to it actually kind of produces like this this layer of growth, like a white growth, which is really nasty but it works really well and that means it's working.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And I think it's kind of cool to watch that happening. So if you buy this.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): If you want to buy a kit you can get like a bucket like this. But you can also just like wearing bins and the other method you can make your own setup so

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Justin - Dig (he/him): If you just drill holes on the bottom of the bucket and put inside another one that's going to work fine. Sure. You just want to make sure that the

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Justin - Dig (he/him): The excess moisture and this tea right here can train off and and then you're going to want to make sure that the top is airtight because this is anaerobic so it doesn't use oxygen.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And yeah, and then also I forgot to mention but you use like this inoculated brand which you do have to buy a bit like a big bag like this is about $10 and you just put a handful on top, it kind of

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Brings in the right bacteria.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So now Charlotte's going to kind of talk about some other ideas.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Yeah, thanks. Justin That's all super interesting. Um,

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): If

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): We you guys want a less hands on method of composting. There's still a lot of different ways you can go one is the share waist up which you can just find online. I have it like photos. Oh, you can't see my arrow.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): On the right here. And this is where you think

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): This is where you can bring your food scraps and someone else will compost it. And those are all like the green maps and the map on the bottom is

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Of the UCLA area. And there's one right on the other side of the four or five and

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): So this is just specified to where I am. But hopefully you guys can find one around where you are.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And then you can contact them, ask them how they like what kind of food scraps. They use how they compost and what you can bring them.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And that is one way. The next two or if you guys are on UCLA is campus one you can throw your screwed food scraps over the fence into the day composting bin.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And the second is, you can just bring them to the composting containers around UCLA because thankfully, you see like composts

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Um, I would say the best thing right now just to put them in the UCLA composting bin. But when we get back in session. Our day composting will also and we can accept a ton of donations

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And lastly, if you're not near UCLA and you either can't use the share we snapper, there's no one around you look into the basement. I'm in the

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Car. I grew up Napa, you were able to throw our food scraps into our yard waste spins and they have like specific things that you can throw in but

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Hopefully your town has something like that, too. And if you look into it. Maybe you guys have composting. Maybe you can turn to your yard waste and um, yeah. So those are two different methods and I'm okay. Justin.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Do you want to talk about the tales and stuff to collect food scraps and during the week.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Oh, right, yeah. Sorry. Um, so

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): The best thing for you to do is either hold on to the food scraps for about a week, which is what me and Justin do and then bring it to a certain location. After that, for composting. What now one is

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Shown. Those little white pale.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And I have a different one. That's like a 10 and then it has a

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Lid on the top that has holes, but then it also has a like charcoal filter. So, then none of the smells will come out of the container.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): So both of those are super good options and they're pretty cheap. And it's just a way to hold in the food scraps before you can bring it in compost it um okay and then the next slide. Thanks, Justin.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): I'm

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Cool. And then there's a totally fancy gadget. That's a little more expensive but super cool.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): You can leave this in your kitchen and it will turn your food scraps into some awesome compost like really fast.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): It's called the food Sigler it reduces the weight and volume of food waste by 90% and it creates sterile odorless and nutrient rich soil.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): For plants in your garden and you can pretty much put any kind of food scraps in there from meat and dairy to fruit and veggie scraps and it sounds super cool. Um, so yeah, those are some less hands on methods. Hopefully you guys found something you can use

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And

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Justin - Dig (he/him): I also just for the record. None of us have actually tried the food secular because they're like

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Justin - Dig (he/him): A few hundred dollars, but it does look like a really cool thing to try. If you do have the resources.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So a lot of people will make compost and then they kind of get stuck with like, okay, now what do I do with it, especially if you're in an apartment and you only have a few house plans or you even if you just have a balcony garden and you're kind of making compost.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And I mean there's not like a ton of room to put it afterwards. So a great idea. If you can't amend it to your existing like planets or beds are like if you don't know anywhere to give it away to is to make this compost tea.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Which is not for drinking. It's accomplished tea for for plans. Please don't drink this and send me a message saying you're sick.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): But you use compost and this is a great diagram. So you're going to put compost in like a NYLON STOCKING or you can put it in like cheese cloth or any cloth bag really

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And then you're going to want like a little air pump. These are really cheap. I think you can get one for $5 or so.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And and that's just going to put air in and then you're going to want to fill it up with water and put in like a few tablespoons of molasses. And so the molasses is feeding all the microbes inside the compost and then the air is kind of making it

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Like very oxygenated for them to thrive and what you're going to end up with is a tea. That's kind of light brown

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And or you could just water it water your plants with it, just like a regular watering can, and it will really improve the health of your plants. So that's like a great way to kind of use up that compost or not sure what to do it.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And then we want to open this up for questions, so I'll stop.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Sharing and then may, if you can stop the recording just positive for a second.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Yeah. And don't worry, on the pole. We're not tracking good segue.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): It's just for your own entertainment.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Cool. As of now 60% of people chose on 66.7% three to 3% and one chose 10%

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And the answer.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): The answer is 67% of greenhouse gas emissions come from food waste.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And then we'll interesting thing if 67% sounds small

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Imagine that all the world's food race came together to form a country, it would be the third or just a matter of greenhouse gases. So that's pretty crazy how much

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): CO2 goes into just creating food waste and that can be from farming practices moving the food from one area to another and then also it going to look

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Cool. The next question.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): How much land is used to produce food that has never eaten.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Oh my gosh.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): We all chose the exact same answer.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Okay, one person chose a different answer. That's crazy. Okay. The correct answer is 5.4 million square miles.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Good job, everyone. That was crazy. So, in reference to that Justin. If you could click to the next slide, that is united states plus Mexico and part of Canada. So that's how much land goes into just creating food that is never eaten.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): So that's insane.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And good job to everyone. I don't know how you knew

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Okay, how long can you keep fruit and veggies in the fridge. There are actually two answers on here that are correct because different fruits and vegetables have

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Different amounts of time. You can leave them.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And a majority of people one or the other. So 30% 44% chose one to two weeks and the same amount shows wanted to six weeks. So, good job. Those are the correct answers. So the first

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Justin, can you go to the next slide.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): So first the is romantic recommended to keep fruits and veggies in the fridge for one, two weeks and then

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Apples and root vegetables can be kept in the fridge for one to six weeks. And I think this is just because they're a bit hard year where it's like berries and stuff. They can go bad pretty quickly. And I would say for a lot of

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Like, depending on how good your for traders like sorry in my refrigerator goes bad, and like five days. So you should really like think about it when you're buying food, but this is like a huge point in that

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): A lot of people buy food for like a week or like a week and a half and then so they don't necessarily know how much they're going to need

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And they may overbuy so one good way to figure out is like to catalog, how much you eat and like figure out how much you need

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Just so then you don't have to throw anything away that you ended up not eating.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And then in this article. There were some tips. One was to keep tomatoes at room temperature for best flavor and potatoes and onions last longer in cool dark places. Oh, and specifically for potatoes. They have to be in dark places.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): This is a really random fact. But if potatoes start if potatoes are in sunlight, they'll start to turn green. And that means they're actually, it could become poisonous soon. So if you want to look that up. It's kind of interesting. My grandma told me about that. The other day

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Cool. And next question.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Fraction of food that is produced is never eaten.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): We should have played

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Cool. Okay, this one is

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Super even

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Three chose one a fourth three Joseph is three Joseph. Third, and it is a third Justin. Thank you.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): So nearly one third of food that is produced in the world never gets eaten and one

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): big contributor to this as grocery stores, because they encourage consumers to buy more than they need. They Overstock shelves. They inaccurately inaccurately predict shelf life and or they damage objects.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): So yeah, I mean there's every single point in the chain does contribute to it, but that is one

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): So it's always good to think about what you need and only get what you need. When you're going to grocery store or go to a grocery store more often and just get what you need for like the next couple days, just to

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Be wary of that fact.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Cool. Last question. Let's do it. What percent of food is wasted on farms every year.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Okay. Um, so the highest amount was 20 to 30% and that is the correct answer.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And if you could move to the next. Cool. So an estimated 20 to 30% of food is wasted on forms from improper earn adequate drying storage packaging and transportation

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): And even at some points, the farmers can't afford to harvest the food because the market prices so low or labor costs are so high that

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Yeah, it's like why would you even pick it. If you are going to lose money by picking it and bringing it into stores, which is pretty crazy.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): So in every way. The grocery stores the consumer and the people who create the product.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Are creating food waste and if we can we can lower that in each way.

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Charlotte- Dig (she/her): Cool.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): So that's the end of the questions for me. Yeah. Okay. Cool.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And so now we want to talk about like some creative ways to reduce food waste. And so obviously composting. That should be a given

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Because we just spent. Now we're talking about that. And then also making a list before going to the store planning your meals.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): And going through your fridge and pantry often even though it can be like super daunting to have to take inventory of what you have it, it does help reduce food waste quite a bit, because then you realize like, oh, this is about to go bad, so I should be using that

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Or you find, you know those vegetables that are really wilted in the back of your fridge and then getting creative with will to produce. So using them and stews stews broadcasts.

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Justin - Dig (he/him): Etc. Or you can freeze it and use it at a later time. And now, may you can stop recording