Tag Archives: Compost Science And Engineering

To get fast superb results when composting grass lawn mowings in the HOTBIN:  Add 40 parts grass with 20 parts shredded paper and 1 part wood chip (bulking agent) Typically this is a medium sized lawn mower collection box (40 litres) with a full carrier bag of shredded paper (20 ...

LEAVES CAN GO IN THE HOTBIN AND THEY MAKE GREAT HUMUS. If you have a lot of leaves (>10 litres, a bucket load), you need to tweak the recipe to ensure they HOT compost. If you only add thick layers of leaves into the HOTBIN, it is unlikely they will ...

A number of composting advice sites indicate cigarette filters are made from synthetic plastics and do not decompose! We disagree – controlled hot Composting of cigarette butts is viable. Please read on to find out why!  Whether a material IS or IS NOT compostable (i.e. biodegradable) is a matter of ...

We had an interesting question come in last week! Was Black Soldier Fly (BSF) composting the most efficient composting system ever? After many years in composting, we had not come across BSF before, intrigue and a hint of competiveness that any system might be better than the HOTBIN, we did ...

The Compost Woman, who knows an awful lot about composting, reviews the HOTBIN! And I’m pleased to announce she has had a text book start as she has already reached 60C! http://www.the-compostbin.com/2012/07/hotbin-trial-day-1.html She started with an very full HOTBIN having plenty of material available for her base layer.

Below we explain how to Compost ALL domestic food waste  (i.e. at home, in a garden, or via backyard composting). Why do we need this blog? Surely food waste is just like other waste for composting – we just add it to the compost heap and it breaks down? What’s ...

COMPOSTING ‘VEGWARE’ ™ & BIODEGRADABLE BAGS AND CONTAINERS IN THE HOTBIN The HOTBIN was developed to compost all food, garden and grass in the home and garden. We were contacted by Lucy Frankel at the foodwastenetwork.org.uk who is building a food waste network www.foodwastenetwork.org.uk to help commercial business do more to divert ...

There are many different forms of life active within a compost heap. Below is a quick overview of who is living in your compost heap and what they are doing. There are chemical decomposers: Micro organisms such as bacteria, fungi, and actinomycetes.  These account for most of the decomposition that takes place ...

You can compost for nothing ( zero pounds / dollars) by piling your garden and food waste up in a corner. How do you decide whether to pay 20, 60, 185 or even 900 pounds (yes really!) for a compost bin? You ‘justify’ the cash by convincing yourself of the ...