The garbage can isn?t as useful to Nancy Frick.

Frick, of Westminster, throws her food scraps ? orange peels, cabbage, coffee grinds and even coffee filters ? into a green ceramic jar about a foot tall next to her kitchen sink. It?s the first step in composting ? creating her own fertilizer while recycling what would otherwise be dumped in a landfill.

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