Penny’s bin
They’re moaning about waste again.
One of the problems I have here is getting rid of stuff. I currently have four wheelie bins – three in the front garden and one in the lobby. Now they want to give me another. I don’t want it. I only use three of the four I already have.
My system is simple.
If it’s dry it goes in the bin in the lobby. When that bin is full I empty it into the green bin in the garden [which has twice the capacity]. Neither of those bins has any odour whatsoever.
If it’s wet, squishy or generally unwholesome it goes into a pedal bin in the kitchen [into a plastic sack]. When that’s full the sack goes out into the black bin. The contents are rank, particularly in warm weather.
There’s also a compost bin under the kitchen sink. That takes tea bags, potato peelings and the like. That ends up periodically on the compost heap. It doesn’t smell much but it looks really fucking disgusting.
There are some things that are theoretically recyclable which go into the pedal bin. Top of the list there is the vast quantity of kitchen paper which I have used to mop up dog piss. The smell off those is indescribable and if they think I’m going to stink the lobby out then they have another think coming. It’s bad enough when I open the pedal bin.
I don’t quite know what they expect me to put in the new bin. The one I don’t use now is for garden waste but I have never used it. My hedge clippings and lawn cuttings alone would probably fill several dozen bins so I dump those in the garden. The new one is for “organic” waste. Plate scrapings? Apple cores? Dog piss [and shit]? I have no idea.
Maybe I’ll just fill it with piss-soaked paper to keep them happy?
You can’t get more organic than dog waste?
Can the waste from non organic food – peelings, bones, cores, pips etc. go in the Organic Bin?
Oh, the dilemmas.
I found by experiment that paper composts down quickly. I am sure that piss soaked paper, like byre bedding straw will make good compost.
Add your own. Every little counts.If you do gardening.
However, if the piss-soaked ‘paper’ is most types of kitchen roll, it’s not actually paper but a form of plastic, so won’t degrade on the compost heap.
Hence kitchen roll causes many drain blockages when folk flush it thinking it’s paper.
Bugger… Your] comment arrived just as I posted my reply
That’s a fair point about putting the piss-paper on the compost heap. The only problem is that I don’t fancy trotting down the garden several times a day. I suppose I could keep a special sack in the garage [behind an air tight door]? I’ll give it a try. I’ll also hose down the heap occasionally in case of spontaneous combustion?
I think that you shouldn’t compost poo from carnivores if you mean to fertilise vegetables.
The compost heap won’t heat up enough to kill the possible worms etc.