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Post by galina on Mar 27, 2013 3:58:49 GMT -5
Joseph mentioned over on the Red Podded Snow Peas thread that he is finding it hard to get his family to put the kitchen peelings back into the garden. He said:" It irritates the hell out of my family that I won't put peelings, or rinds, or bones, or scraps into the garbage can: As far as I'm concerned, they gotta go back into the garden as fertilizer. " I agree. These are far too valuable to waste. Maybe a little caddy with flip-lid would be useful to make it as convenient for the cook to put the kitchen scraps into the garden bin as it is to put them into the general household waste bin. That's what we have and it works well, gets emptied onto the compost pile about twice a week. Here is an example of a caddy designed especially for kitchen scraps: www.originalorganics.co.uk/product/slwc-slimline-waste-caddy-greenBut any plastic bucket with lid would do the job.
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Post by ferdzy on Mar 27, 2013 5:53:26 GMT -5
I have a stainless steel kitchen compost container from Lee Valley. It's great. Big enough to hold quite a bit, but it still fits into the dishwasher. They make them with carbon filters, but my feeling is that the lid sits firmly enough on it to keep smells inside it without the filter (and I am not exactly meticulous about emptying it). My mom has the filter version and as far as I can see all the filter does is be something else to fiddle with, and spend money on. I have the larger version; anyone with garden-grown produce will need that size. The small one is too small. (My MIL has the small one and it's fine for her but they eat much more pre-prepared foods.) You can get cheaper compost containers, but this one is now at least 10 years old and looks pretty much as good as new. www.leevalley.com/en/garden/page.aspx?c=&p=10025&cat=2,2050
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2013 10:59:27 GMT -5
I like crocks and containers from a design standpoint, in which any useful thing, in and of itself, can be art.
What I really had were coffee cans and pickle jars, both of which failed.
In practice, if you open a sealed container full of decaying material in a kitchen, the whole room will stink.
If a paper bag can't be taken straight outside, a conventional trashcan, dedicated to greenwaste, is less risky, because it aerates a little at a time.
With windows and doors open throughout the year, I do not at all stay in an energy efficient house. Open one of these things, where all possible sources of ventilation are sealed, I think it would be claustrophobic.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2013 11:03:47 GMT -5
Really, when I live by myself, there is almost nothing in the trash for a long time.
What I have been doing, if I see that we'll be processing lots of fruit or vegetables, is to bring a small tree pot in the house and walk it to the compost pile, every once in awhile.
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