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#composting

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Sustainable Sailing

We were just watching #Delos on #plumbing. They show the problems common on boats with #toilets blocking, flooding, & smelling. Then they show their very expensive solutions to make them serviceable, reliable, & reduced chance of problems. Very sophisticated.
However, there is an alternative approach. Instead of more expense, complexity and space the other option to avoid all the problems is so simple (and better environmentally) is #composting toilets.
Plus they also work in boatyards.

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For Pete's Sake!

So our starter Bokashi composing kit is on order! it's a process that uses lactobacillus bacteria to anaerobically pre-digest and break down a wider range of food matter prior to being added to a traditional composting system.

We decided against the hot composting method for now as it would be mostly stand alone and the heat generated would be counter productive to the generation of the bacteria in the bokashi process. We may come back to this later and compare the processes.

However, we are also going to be buying a couple of large barrel compost turners to facilitate easy mixing of our compost.

our current process (with the plastic daleks as I call them) means they need to be emptied out onto a tarp, shovelled into a sieve, sieved and then moved into the next bin. A hard and time hungry process.

#Composting#gardening
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For Pete's Sake!

My wife is beside herself with excitement and joy... because I've found a way to join her in her hobby.

She's a keen #gardener. Two allotment plots and a home garden. I help out with the building of things. I built her shed/summerhouse, I built her compost bays, I put up fences and grow structures etc.

I HATE (pathologically) getting dirty. I literally want to chuck up. Even when doing something clean like baking I'll feel nauseous when I get dough stuck to my hands. It's even so bad I feel nauseous shaking hands with someone with tattoos! I know, it makes no sense. But some part of my brain thinks the ink will transfer across.

so needless to say I don't do much in the garden to help her out.

She was bemoaning the fact her composting isn't very effective. I'm a science guy. I did a brief google.. then an #Autistic deep dive.

I presented her with a breakdown of a #composting process involving anaerobic hot composting/waste fermentation coupled with an easy compost mixing and aeration system.

She's sold! it's a bit of an outlay but not as much as she spends on mulch and compost over a couple of years anyway. And my system should offset that and pay for itself in no time.

So, she's the gardener, I'm (now) the de facto soil scientist armed with reams of chemistry and biology articles looking at Vermiculture , fermentation, microbial health, mycelial growth, nutrient breakdown and general soil health..

plus side? I get to use my microscope too :D

double plus. I get to eat the produce.

triple plus? I don't have to throw out fish and cooked foods. So no more kerbside food waste caddy (which was always disgusting and in the summer a haven for maggots and flies)

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Bytes Europe

Finland still burning biowaste despite recycling push byteseu.com/934580/ #biowaste #campaign #composting #Energy #fertiliser #Finland #incineration #Kivo #Recycling #WasteManagement

Bytes Europe · Finland still burning biowaste despite recycling pushA significant portion of Finland’s biowaste continues to end up in mixed waste bins and is incinerated, according to national waste management experts. The Finnish Solid Waste Association (Kivo) has launched a new campaign urging the public to improve biowaste sorting. The organisation represents regional and municipal waste firms and says the focus is on increasing the use of biowaste as a raw material for fertiliser and biogas. Recent waste composition analyses show that 29.2 percent of mixed waste is still made up of biodegradable materials. In practice, this means that instead of being recycled, a large share of
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Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲

First bin assembled! The doggo was supervising and guarding against squirrels.

I'll probably store leaves in the second bin until I need the brown for the first bin. This is going to be super-lazy-composting where I dig up what's underneath to use - so basically a FIFO stack.

Four shipping pallets have been tie-strapped together, in the corner of a backyard (garden) to form a composting bin. One of the pallets is partially open to demonstrate the gate that allows access.
Four shipping pallets have been tie-strapped together, in the corner of a backyard (garden) to form a composting bin. A fifth has been put up to form the back of the second bin that will be completed when I get two more pallets. A small peanut-butter-colored spaniel/heeler/beagle mix stands guard, hoping a squirrel appears that needs chasing.
#gardening#composting#reuse
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