On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:11:11 -0600, Janet Bostwick
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>On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:13:57 -0400, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
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>>Those cheese containers are too small, they'd need emptying much too
>>often. And plastic absorbs nasty odors that can't be washed out, and
>>they stain. Compost containers need to be vented or they'll start to
>>ferment and they'll stink even more. I've been using the same $9
>>stainless steel one gallon compost bucket for more than 20 years, at
>>this point it's been free for a long time because now it costs twice
>>as much.
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>My property isn't as large as yours, Sheldon. I empty the container
>every evening after supper. I walk out the back door into the back
>yard and over to the compost. Bring the container back in and rinse
>and then wash it. No smell. I'm simply taking fresh trimmings out to
>the compost -- they haven't begun to ferment yet.
>Janet


Compost is garbage that I am diverting from the garbage collector. .
Just as with my other garbage, it goes out every single day. I do not
keep it hanging around the kitchen.

I always have enough cottage cheese containers, too, because that is a
household staple. Even on days that I am doing a lot of cooking and
food prep, I have never, ever come close to running out of cottage
cheese containers.

Over the winter, the snow was so deep that we could not get to the
composters (I have two). I piled up those filled cottage cheese
containers in the garage where they froze nicely. When the thaw came,
I marched it all out to the composters. No fuss. No muss. No filters.
No disintegrating bags.

Besides, it does no harm whatsoever if any of the compost starts its
decomposition a few hours or even days early. If I find a rotted
orange or potato or some such, or cut out an overripe portion of a
melon, into the compost container it goes. I surely wouldn't worry
about "fermentation" detracting from its use.

Poor Sheldon...his brain is fermented and he doesn't know his ass from
a hole in the ground about compost, either.

Boron