I saw a small compost bin for $300 the other day and I immediately thought to myself that I would fill that small thing up in 1 week tops.
The best thing to do is find a container to store your left over food scraps in and then find a location where you can drop them off at. Even if you live in the city there has to be a forest area somewhere, or a friend or relative that lives near by that has a garden. (Or that would be willing to start a garden with you if you agreed to do most of the work.)
I currently live in an apartment in the city and I talked my brother who owns a house and has a big back yard to start a garden with me in his back yard, so I simply save up food scraps and go over to his house a couple times a week to drop them off and work in the garden.
100datesaday > Jared SixSeptember 2, 2010 at 9:17am
I think, I would have a forest or something nearby to drop them off, put I wonder if it's ok to just leave these amounts of waste somewhere in nature, cause I dont know if they arent going to get moldy instead of converting into composrt...? Im not so much into composting...
DURIANRIDER > 100datesadaySeptember 2, 2010 at 7:23pm
Yep the animals in the forrest will be very happy with some extra fruit treats. I always use forrests etc for composting. I throw it around a bit and you come back next week and its been eaten or has almost composted into nothing.
Ive got a mate that just leaves it on the foot path as advertising. He says 'Coca Cola/hersheys/mcdonalds does it with all their trash I see everyday and now Im doing it for the banana/melon/durian industry..and at least this trash breaks down..' and he leaves a melon shell on a park bench or a pile of durian shells on a footpath. It gets people that see it asking 'WTF'?
haha awsome! im going to start doing that. i cringe everytime i throw all this earth material in the trash
100datesaday > DURIANRIDERSeptember 2, 2010 at 8:35pm
interesting marketing concept...^^
Jared Six > 100datesadaySeptember 2, 2010 at 3:23pm
Everything will be fine as long as you make an effort to spread your compost out a bit, rather than simply leaving a HUGE pile of banana peels or something like that. There's nothing wrong with leaving 1 banana peel in the forest and there's nothing wrong with leaving 100 banana peels in the forest, just don't concentrate them all in a very small and compacted space.
100datesaday > Jared SixSeptember 2, 2010 at 8:33pm
I'm from Germany and my parents still live there. They have a brown composting bin that get's picked up weekly or fortnightly.
Also, would you have space for a worm farm on your balcony? I have this one here outside our house in addition to a compost heap down the hill at the edge of our property.
Otherwise there are bokashi bins for apartment purposes.
Right now, 'Im at my parents in Germany, thats no problem, because they have compost pile in their garden. But I'm soon going to move to Geneva....So I think I'm going to go for the forest solution. Since I have no need of compost for plants or so...
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The best thing to do is find a container to store your left over food scraps in and then find a location where you can drop them off at. Even if you live in the city there has to be a forest area somewhere, or a friend or relative that lives near by that has a garden. (Or that would be willing to start a garden with you if you agreed to do most of the work.)
I currently live in an apartment in the city and I talked my brother who owns a house and has a big back yard to start a garden with me in his back yard, so I simply save up food scraps and go over to his house a couple times a week to drop them off and work in the garden.
Ive got a mate that just leaves it on the foot path as advertising. He says 'Coca Cola/hersheys/mcdonalds does it with all their trash I see everyday and now Im doing it for the banana/melon/durian industry..and at least this trash breaks down..' and he leaves a melon shell on a park bench or a pile of durian shells on a footpath. It gets people that see it asking 'WTF'?
Thanks!
Also, would you have space for a worm farm on your balcony? I have this one here outside our house in addition to a compost heap down the hill at the edge of our property.
Otherwise there are bokashi bins for apartment purposes.
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