It's hard trying to come up with ways to get rid of food scraps if you don't have a garden! Back home, we'd compost some veggie scraps (broccoli stalks, the inedible things that got shoved to the back of the fridge...), but here, not really an option. I live in a small apartment in a community that hasn't figured out how to recycle cans and paper.

I've taken to pickling or cooking stuff like broccoli stalks, the weird leftover mini bell peppers, and radish leaves (also saves some money, since there's an extra veggie now!), but excess herbs end up in the back of the fridge to get pitched later. Same with coffee grounds and tea leaves. My grandmother, when she had roses, used to put her used leaves in the beds.