Sierra Club Green Home

Making compost from food waste and garden trimmings is fun, easy, and profitable. Even if you live in an apartment and don’t have room for a compost bin, you can make compost indoors.

LOS ANGELES, (NBC) – It’s ‘Green Week’ on NBC, and Thursday will mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.

We’ve come a long way since we first started thinking about the impact our daily lives have on our planet, but environmentalists say Americans are still the most wasteful people in the world.

So as we look to the next 40 years, what’s next? Well, as NBC’s Jinah Kim reports, it just might be composting.

The Wall Street Journal’s Gwendolyn Bounds walks us through an array of composters, demonstrates the pros and cons of each, and finally shows us how easy it is to get started! Take a few classes in composting 101 by watching this video.

Composting sounds daunting, doesn’t it? Well, it shouldn’t. It’s really not that hard. Let Sierra Club’s Owen Bailey show you the basics. You’ll be teaching your neighbors before you know it.