Kitchen scraps.  The festering food that makes your bin smell bad and languishes in landfill producing greenhouse gas that will further warm our planet and jeopardise our future.  So, what should you do with these scraps?

The London Boroughs of Ealing, Hounslow and Richmond have taken the initiative and are collecting kitchen waste from the doorsteps a quarter of a million west London homes and taking it away to be turned into electricity through anaerobic digestion. With the food scraps being recycled in this way they don’t end up in landfill somewhere producing methane, and the process is enough to continuously power almost 3,000 homes. [source: edie]

It would be amazing to see this initiative rolled-out throughout the UK, but in the meantime, what are we to do if we don’t live in the areas where this is happening? Compost your kitchen waste, yes, all of it, with one of these clever little kitchen composters that take meat, carbohydrates and dairy products as well as the usual fruit and vegetable peelings. You can add cooked food to these composters, making them far more efficient than “regular” composting methods, and you won’t end up with a smelly bin full of fish bones and chicken skins, because you can put those in your kitchen composter too.

Here’s how it works: