Compost Bin Giveaway

***Update: This giveaway has ended, find the lucky winner at the bottom of the post. Stay tuned for future giveaways right here at 17 Apart! *** 

For Father's Day Stephanie and Brandon, got me this beautiful white ceramic compost bin that fits right on our countertop, quite inconspicuously. It even accents the white tile back-splash we have really well — they are so good!

I was particularly excited about this little bin because we've been on the hunt for one and have admittedly been using a stainless steel bowl inside our little bar sink to chuck kitchen scraps before transferring them over to our outdoor composting system. Now we have our little bar sink back and a nice looking official compost bin — a win win all around.

We're so excited in fact, today we're giving away an Oggi stainless steel composter bin to one lucky 17 Apart reader:

This composter is a full gallon size and can fit right on your counter or go underneath your sink — it comes with a charcoal filter built in, which helps control any odors that might crop up from the bin. We weren't paid or even asked by the makers of Oggi compost bins to give this bin away, we just want to help promote and spread the good word of how easy it can be to get started composting in your own kitchen!

For anyone interested, we hope you'll take a moment to read why we think composting is important and how we go about it in our own daily lives from in older post all about composting. 

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Now down to business:
To enter, simply leave a comment on this post and let us know what type of kitchen waste you think you'll be saving the most if this little bin becomes yours (for us it's usually coffee grinds, egg shells and green vegetable scraps).

Each of the following will earn you an additional entry:

• Any one or combination of the following: "Like" 17 Apart on Facebook , follow 17 Apart on Twitter, follow 17 Apart on Google+ and sign up for our mailing list by clicking the envelope button in our sidebar — then leave 4 separate comments on this post for each letting us know you've done so.
• Follow this blog by clicking the RSS button in our sidebar, then leave a comment letting us know you've done so.
• Share this post by clicking the Facebook Like button at the top of the post and leave a new comment on this post letting us know you've done so.
• Tweet about the giveaway including the following: "@17Apart is giving away a gallon size stainless steel compost bin: http://tinyurl.com/d77w76m" along with anything else you'd like to include - then leave a new comment on this post letting us know you've done so.

The giveaway will end Saturday, July 14, 2011 at 11:59 PM ET; the winner will be auto-generated using Random.org and updated in this post shortly thereafter. Be sure to come visit to find out the winner and good luck!

***Update: This giveaway has ended, the lucky winner is commenter #123 (Chrystal Jones). Thanks to all that participated and stay tuned for future giveaways right here at 17 Apart! ***