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Cookie jar as a countertop compost bin

 
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A silly little idea, but I didn't think of it until I saw it in my mom's kitchen: a ceramic cookie jar makes for an aesthetic, air tight, easy to sanitize and perfectly sized countertop container for your scraps, and they are easily found at thrift stores.

(I come from a long line of permaculture-minded women and my mom has always composted, and still does even though she lives in a high rise building and composting requires walking five blocks to a community-managed compost bin.)
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My now cute compost jar
My now cute compost jar
 
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What a clever idea! Much more environmentally cohesive than the plastic icecream tub I've been keeping on my countertop, haha! I'll be keeping an eye out for one next time I'm at the thrift shop, thanks for sharing the idea. Heh, imagine you'd be able to surprise some guests with that too. "No no, the cookies are in there, they're just burrowing right now. Shh, let them rest..."
 
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