Vego Kitchen Composter review: keep food scraps out of the trash
Vego Kitchen Composter review: keep food scraps out of the trash
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Vego Kitchen Composter. If you're tired of smelly garbage, the Vego Kitchen Composter is a great way to responsibly dispose of food scraps — if you're fine with sacrificing the countertop space. Food waste is a big deal. While the numbers vary depending on your source, it's estimated that the average American throws away anywhere between 200 and 400 pounds of food a year.
That might not seem like a big deal because that averages about 0.82 pounds of waste a day — about 2.5 apples or a little less than one russet potato. But it's a little more sobering when you realize that food waste accounts for almost a quarter of landfill waste.
And, when thrown in a landfill, food doesn't simply decompose nicely into soil, the way it might in a compost pile in your backyard. Instead, it rots in anaerobic environments where it off-gasses methane, a greenhouse gas that is 84 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
According to the EPA, every year Americans throw away enough food to create 42 coal-powered plants worth of greenhouse gas emissions. That is a big problem. And, as the EPA points out, the most effective way to deal with the problem is prevention. However, even with the best preventative measures in place, you're still going to have food you need to dispose of.
So, say you don't want to throw your food in the garbage anymore. You can try traditional composting, provided you have the space and time to maintain a compost pile. You could try vermicomposting, which requires you to obtain and maintain a colony of worms to help break down your food scraps.
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