Allegheny Front Says: “It’s easy to compost. Just drop off your food waste at a Pittsburgh farmers market”

“Longanecker said composting at the farmers markets has become popular.

“It has grown so much since the start of this season,” she said. “We’ve doubled the number of buckets that we’ve been able to do. So we’re up to about eight buckets a week.”

The food waste goes to Worm Return, a local residential and commercial composting service, with three composting sites in the city. Laura Totin Codori, the company’s founder and CEO, said it takes about four to six weeks for the food waste to break down into what she calls a “mostly digested material.”

“Then what comes through the sifter, the digested material will then age for anywhere from six to nine months, and then it’s ready to go on the ground,” she said.”