Advice: New technology and services are making it easier to compost, whether you live out in the country or in a 400-square-foot apartment.
grind up scraps and then dehydrate them. The resulting food grounds — not yet true compost since they are mostly dried-out organic matter — can be added to any garden strip or sent back to the company to be fed to livestock.three weeks for an average U.S. householdThe device turns food waste into dried particles that are sent back to the company via the Postal Service for chicken feed. Membership for Mill’s service gets you all the equipment, shipping and filter refills for $33 per month.
equivalent to driving about 1,200 miles, primarily by avoiding landfills and replacing crops grown for livestock poultry.
with several trays that fit under the sink or in a closet. Done right, they don’t smell or attract flies. You mix food scraps with some shredded paper or other brown material the worms love. Within days, the worms begin creating crumbly black soil and move upward as new food is added to each layer. You can order bags of live red wiggler worms online , and they’ll happily root around in your scraps and soil. It’s a bit of work, but some composters enjoy the process .
One benefit? It’s the world’s best houseplant fertilizer. “Vermicompost outdid everything,” says Brown. Easy:. A perforated basket is buried a few feet underground or in a container on a hard surface. A green double-walled plastic cone sits above it. You dump in food scraps. The trapped heat from the sun and natural organisms in the soil rapidly decompose everything inside, an oxidation process that happens more slowly with true compost.
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