Composting continues to grow in the region Look around your neighborhood.
Chances are, every other household on the block is doing some kind of backyard composting.
May 2-8 is National Composting Awareness Week, and Metro has a number of ways residents of the region can learn about backyard composting. Metro offers free workshops through June and free information about composting and building your own bin. And there's Metro's annual compost bin sale in June. According to a 1998 Metro study, more than half of all single-family residences in the metropolitan region composted some or all of their yard trimmings last year. People also composted nearly one-third of their kitchen scraps.