Those materials are a combination of carbon-based “browns” (cardboard, paper, sawdust, dried leaves, et cetera), nitrogen-rich “greens” (food scraps like apple cores or banana peels ...

We often don’t think twice about discarding a rotting banana peel ... buckets (or large rolling bins for commercial enterprises) to throw their food waste into. Compost RVA then picks up these ...

Chef George Duran produces his fair share of food scraps -- and when it comes to composting ... those bins.” One common question is whether people must peel the sticker off their banana.