Social Compost: Liberate Your Peelings!

The idea

A web-based initiative to reduce landfill waste, encouraging community action and empowering urban dwellers to compost their kitchen waste.

‘Social Compost’ [working title] would be a drop-dead simple website, based around an interactive map. There would be an option to add yourself to the map and to offer either kitchen peelings or mature compost. You could use the map to find others who are offering either peelings or compost.

A number of niceties could add to the experience: compost tips and tricks, an API to access the data from third-party applications, etc.

What inspired you?

In the last couple of places I have lived, I have not had access to a garden, but did not want to bin my kitchen scraps. And so I have scoured the new neighbourhoods for gardeners willing to take my peelings. I know others who throw away their peelings for lack of a garden, but feel bad about doing so.

Idea submitted by Premasagar Rose.

Premasagar is a co-director of a social web development business start-up, Dharmafly.

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6 responses

  1. Premasagar comments:
    March 11th, 2008 at 11:55 am

    Please let me know your thoughts about this idea. And if anyone can think of a better name than “Social Compost”, please pipe up!

  2. timdavies comments:
    March 11th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    Great idea :)

    We’ve just agreed with the local Quaker Meeting House that we can use their compost heap… but it took us ages to find somewhere we could compost (our balcony just doesn’t have the room…)

    Although we do get slightly odd looks walking up there every week with a see-through plastic bucket full of compost…

  3. Brighton Idea - Connecting You to Compost | Kendall Copywriting pings back:
    March 11th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

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  4. leif.kendall comments:
    March 12th, 2008 at 7:07 am

    Great idea! As for names… Composthood, Compostable, MyCompost, Compostr, UpMyCompost, InfiniteCompost, CompostConnections, FindMeCompost… ?

  5. Social Compost: Liberate Your Peelings! : Dharmafly pings back:
    March 14th, 2008 at 11:57 am

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  6. Premasagar comments:
    June 13th, 2008 at 11:58 am

    Thanks all for your contributions.
    I came up with a name. It came to me in a flash, in the dead of night.

    TouchyPeely
    It’ll be at http://touchypeely.com

    See you all by the compost heap…

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