Things you could do with organic waste, other than composting: * For food and garden weeds/waste, most of this makes decent chicken food. If I dump a wheelbarrow of weeds from the garden into the chicken run, the girls go nuts -- similarly with a bucket of kitchen waste. They'll skip the stuff they don't like (e.g. banana peels), and you can rake this up when they're done to use for composting. (If you watch [Back to Eden](http://backtoedenfilm.com/), there's a short segment about this practice. It's only a short bit of the film, but the rest of it is worth watching anyway.) Other animals will eat scraps like this too -- pigs, for example. (But do know your animals and avoid feeding anything that would be harmful!) * If you're getting resistance to simply managing a "proper" compost pile, you could switch to low-management forms of composting like trench composting. With this, you just dig a trench maybe 45-60cm deep and as long as appropriate. Fill the trench with your organic waste, starting at one end. When a section of the trench is filled to within 5-10cm of the top of the hole, cover with topsoil. Over time the waste will decompose and the trench will sink a bit -- you can dig another trench next to it and use the soil from the second trench to level out the first one. * [Biogas digester](http://www.green-trust.org/methane.htm), though this requires some up-front investment and some acquired skill in managing the equipment and handling the gas. I don't have direct experience with biogas, but I'd guess that this would work better on a community level.