I suspect they can go on your worm farm, when you get one.
Hey - worm farms kind of sound like a compost bin that worms live in. Have you started looking into it yet, Rouge?
If your council doesn't want any "organic waste/garden waste/recyclables in these bins" I'm guessing my council isn't far behind - so I'm guessing they will expect everyone to compost ...
Has anyone found effective methods for not getting nasties? Specifically wasps and bees ... but I guess anything which might get hurt, or hurt your property or pets - rats, mice, possums, undesirable neighbours, etc ... ?
We have 120L bins. It's collected on a Tuesday and by Friday it's full (usually due to having extra rubbish from the week before dumped in straight away). I'd say 1/4 to 1/2 our rubbish is nappies!
Rubbish is collected weekly, recyclables every fortnight and green waste on the alternate fortnight
I don't think a smaller bin would be good for us lol
Great questions PN. All ones I've been wondering myself. I'd love to do the Japanese compost thing. But it's very expensive co like the idea of worm farms because its quicker but I still worry about rats and mice. Maybe I should start a thread.
Do you mean Bokashi Rouge? I have been doing it for 5 years and maybe spend 30 dollars a year on stuff and the bin was 40 (some councils give you discount Whitehorse used to). Have no problems with it - it smells a bit vinegary in summer but no pests around it. I had problems burying the pickle output but that is because have no garden - now I take to community garden and gives great soil. They have worm farm too I can take scraps (no onion or citrus) too and daycare have one too now.
Thanks wysiwyg! How much was the initial outlay? As in. Do you buy in bulk? Where did you get it from. Is it easy to use? What happens when it fills up?
Can't remember where I bought bin from - I know I buy the malt stuff in Bunnings now in a quite a big bag ($30) and prob buy one a year. The juice I put on plants or down drains as is a natural drain cleaner. When is full you bury it in the garden or add to a compost bin. In the ground it breaks down in a couple of weeks. I have two in rotation so get to decompose in bin for longer. You can keep in kitchen e.g under sink but we don't have room so is by our front door but if garage was closer would put in there. You can put everything in it including meat which is very convenient.
we fill our big regular bin in a week - mainly with nappys admitidly. our green bin cops all the ouchy weeds the rest we burn on a bonfire (woo for being rural) or in the heater.
we have thought about compost but we already deal with the ones from next doors compost bin comming into our sheds... and had one in the chook shed kill a few chicks towards the colder months this year >.<
Before kids we had many weeks where we had only one shopping bag of rubbish!
I dream of having bins. We have to do our own garbage run. You really get to see how much garbage builds up over time. We compost or feed to the chooks what we can. It is the glass, plastic and cardboard that can build up. I try to offload the smaller items for craft
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