Food scraps collected in green buckets like this one will eventually fertilize gardens around Petersburg.
Tongass Botanicals & Soils has started a composting program to reduce the amount of waste in Petersburg that is being shipped to landfills.
Carrie Martinsen, who runs the composting operation, began a bucket pickup in June to collect food scraps and other biodegradable waste from the community.
"The more I got into it I was like oh this sounds like a really good plan and then talking with the city here they're like we've been wanting somebody to do this for a really long time," Martinsen said.
Martinsen started composting because she wanted to get back into the gardening business but did not w...
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