HOT COMPOSTING MEANS YOU CAN ACTUALLY COMPOST ALL FOOD WASTE WHICH IS MUCH HARDER TO ACHIEVE IN COLD COMPOSTING BINS.
Now we really do understand £185.00 is a lot for a household to pay for a HOTBIN. However when you look at the big picture there is certainly more than £185.00 worth of argument for people to support the ‘concept’ behind HOTBINcomposting!
There is a staggering 7.5 million tonnes of food waste going to landfill every year. Based on the “Love Food Hate Waste” analysis, even if you already home compost, it is likely that you only compost about 40% of your food waste (i.e. kitchen peelings, tea bags). Most food waste has to be collected, transported and dumped in landfill. Going forward it will be collected (at the kerbside) in buckets and sent to anaerobic digestion plants. In the UK, we will need to build around 300 of these plants, one in each district! Each one will cost around £10-20 million to build and then we’ll still need to give every house a plastic caddy plus starch bags for the waste and load it on a lorry each week before it is reprocessed.
THE HOTBIN CAN AND DOES HANDLE ALL DOMESTIC FOOD WASTE.
We can compare the cost of handling food waste via a HOTBIN directly with what we all pay our councils to collect and dump and/or reprocess food waste. At present, the HOTBIN will breakeven with the alternatives in 2.5 years. If we can get support and move the production forward from thousands into tens of thousands then the price will eventually fall and this breakeven will be 1.5 years. Our breakeven estimate excludes the environmental cost of carbon emissions from transport fuel.
The HOTBIN was launched a year ago and as you will know most councils have no budget to give anything away in the current climate so unfortunately there are no more subsidies available to help home composting any more.
We have tried to compensate for this by having our ‘TWIN packs’, ideal for bigger gardens or those who want to share and save. For businesses or larger groups of friends there is the ‘QUAD pack’ and more recently we have launched the ‘Composting Dozen’, to help support local community groups who want to make a collective difference.
