How to Maintain a Vermicomposting System
Cassandra Ford, the city’s composting manager, explains how the department maintains its “Can of Worms” vermicomposting system.
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Kitchen Compost Crock
If you’re a composter then you know that sometimes it’s feel like a chore to take your kitchen scraps out to the compost bin. No one wants to run outside every time they eat an apple or chop some onions. Well you won’t have to anymore if you get a compost crock.
You may have even seen a compost crock before and not realized it. They look a lot like cookie jars. A compost crock looks great and no one will ever know that you have a container of garbage on your kitchen counter. Now whenever you have used up coffee grinds just add them to your crock, filter and all. Fruit and vegetable peels, tea bags and any other ingredients for your compost bin can go right in there. You don’t have to take them outside to your compost bin until you’re ready.
If storing stuff on your counter that you’re used to putting in the trash doesn’t sounds like a great idea to you, don’t worry. Kitchen compost crocks come with replaceable carbon filters. They fit neatly into the lid of the crock and eliminate odors. No one will ever know that it’s filled with stuff all of your kitchen waste.
Kitchen composters come in either stainless steel or ceramic versions so choose one that best fits the dcor of your kitchen. Now just because you can save your organic waste in a kitchen crock doesnt mean that its okay to get lazy and never empty the contents into your compost bin. Now that would be gross. Depending on the size of your family you will probably have to empty it at least once a week. I suggest owning two compost crocks.
After you empty your indoor composter, its a good idea to rinse it out. A quick blast from the hose while youre outside is fine or you can clean it back in your kitchen sink. Every once in a while you may want to give it a thorough cleaning in the dishwasher.
Stop throwing away those banana peels, tea bags and anything else that could be used in your compost bin to make an terrific organic fertilizer. Its almost like throwing out money. A compost crock will make saving these items more convenient and that will make composting more convenient too.
Bin Cleaners Are There To Make Life Easy
Sometimes life demands that we roll our sleeves up and get our hands dirty. Of course, there are some tasks that we would all just prefer not to have to take on, and one of those would most certainly have to be the task of cleaning out rubbish bins. In fact, it’s probably the most rued chore in any family home or business establishment, the one that we’re all always trying to push off onto the next person.
But that is all avoided by simply taking advantage of the many companies that have appeared in tons of communities across the country that offer professional bin cleaning services, getting down to the filthy job of keeping your rubbish bins spick-and-span. These professionals keep innumerable customers happy with perfectly cleaned and hygienic bins that don’t have the least bit of bad odor, bringing with them all the necessary materials to get the job done.
There are a plethora of reasons why people choose to hire professional bin cleaners for their home or for their business place, and no matter where they happen to be people are realizing that this is one service that it’s best not to overlook.
For starters, there is the plainly sanitary motive to hire this kind of a service: there are plenty of health threats that are posed by having filthy rubbish bins that can be averted by having this sort of a service. Uncleaned bins are a welcome home for all kinds of bacteria and viruses and other such nasty things, and unfortunately many people are not aware that this puts people’s health at risk; hence, better to ensure that this sort of a scenario never materializes in the first place.
Next up is the factor of having to tolerate foul odors of all varieties when one’s rubbish bins are not regularly and effectively sanitized and cleaned. In a home setting this makes it absolutely insufferable to live there, and in a business setting this scenario would inevitably lead to a drop in customer patronage as people get fed up of putting up with putrid stenches. Therefore, the elimination of such odors is turned into one of the most resoundingly beneficial outcomes of hiring professional bin cleaners.
Another reason is to be had by thinking in eco-friendly terms: noble though it is, most people end up contaminating the planet more than necessary to clean their bins on their own, and they furthermore not even manage to clean them as effectively as a professional would. From the use and mixing of volatile chemicals to the fact that these chemicals are then not disposed of in the correct way, it all racks up to an unnecessary contamination of the earth that can be averted by hiring professionals.
Finally, there is the fact that you don’t need to change your schedule or any habits to have professional bin cleaners take care of your dirty containers. No matter what kind of bin you have nor how many, and no matter where you happen to be located, you will be able to get a quality service that will conform to your timetables (with cleaners coming to work only when your refuse gets collected, for example) and cause you no inconvenience.
So say goodbye to doing the extra dirty work that you have no business doing anyways; surely there are more important things to keep yourself busy with! Take advantage of professional bin cleaners, because they are there to make your life smoother in a highly tangible fashion.
The JK 125 and JK 270 Composters. Your own Ecological Revolution!
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JK 125/JK 270 has been tested and evaluated in a project comprising 466 households in small houses and blocks of flats and day nurseries. The results have proved most satisfactory as has been shown in the Report No. 4229 by the Swedish Authority for Environment Conservation.
A rotating heat compost for convenient and simple use all the year round. Enjoy seeing the conversion of your kitchen waste into nutritious compost earth. Compost earth with which you can fertilize lawns, pot plants, and flower beds.
In a JK125 / 270 it´s an easy thing to compost all your kitchen food waste including meat and fish. Not many composters can do that.
The key to success is rotation
Mixing is necessary for making a compost to work well. Both for making the fresh waste coming into contact with that already mouldered, thereby rendering the process more effective, and in order to add air, necessary for the high demand for oxygen of the process.
This is done in a very simple way because JK 125/JK 270 being constructed for easy rotation. Furthermore it is very easy to adjust the air supply to suit the quantity of waste by aid of ventilators in the side walls of the machine. Insufficient airing makes a compost smell bad.
JK 125/JK 270 heat and efficiency
Breaking down of a compost generates heat. Different microorganisms start working at different temperatures. JK 125/JK 270 is well insulated and allows the temperature to rise to as high as +75 degrees centigrade at maximum breaking down. Without insulation it may not be possible to reach such a high temperature, which in turn means that microorganisms demanding high temperatures for their activity will never start working.
Using an insulated, rotating compost you get a more even heat distribution and an active breaking down process in the entire volume. That is why composting is made rapid; approximately 6 8 weeks time. The high temperature makes JK 125/JK 270 especially suited for kitchen waste.
Two compartments, for maximum result
JK 125/JK 270 is divided into two compartments to make emptying and bringing to maturity easier. The compartment filled last is covered by a sheet while the other compartment is emptied of its completed compost.
Duration : 0:5:43
Fake Plastic Fish Kitchen
A quick tour of my kitchen, focusing on zero waste and plastic-free features.
Duration : 0:6:52
BioLet Composting Toilet Installation
Installion of BioLet Composting toilet system …
Duration : 0:4:51
Jora Big Pig Compost Maker-home organic gardening easy on you and the environment
http://stores.vitality4life.com.au/Home_Composting/ Organic home gardening made easy with this environmentally friendly rotating heat-generating and insulated composter. Convenient and simple to create living soil nutrients all year round. Enjoy seeing the transformation of your kitchen waste into ecologically sustainable nutritious compost you can use to fertilise lawns, pot plants, vegetable gardens and flower beds. This Swedish designed quality home composting unit is manufactured to …
Duration : 0:2:1
Compost Tea from the Bokashi Indoor Kitchen Composter
After 4 weeks, the composter has produced about a 1/4 cup of compost tea. I didn't add any water to the composter – all of this liquid came from anaerobic bacteria breaking up the fruit and vegetable scraps that I put in it. …
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Recycle your kitchen waste
range of terracotta containers that aid composting from a hundred to a thousand rupees
Duration : 0:3:53
Joe Jenkins shows how to load a humanure compost pile
Joe Jenkins is the author of The Humanure Handbook. This is one of the ways he stays ‘green’.
Duration : 0:4:58