"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:23:14 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> > wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:01:31 -0400, Boron Elgar
> wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:29:43 -0700 (PDT), Silvar Beitel
> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/...C/IMG_0653.jpg
>>>>
>>>>Stainless steel compost bucket and liners. In my house, all vegetable
>>>>waste goes in here and eventually gets dumped into the big compost
>>>>bins in the back yard. Liners are made of cornstarch and are
>>>>themselves bio-degradable. Source: I forget. If you're really
>>>>interested, buzz me and I'll look it up.
>>>>
>>>>http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/...C/IMG_0664.jpg
>>>>
>>> I have to disagree with you on this one.
>>>
>>>I get cottage cheese in 3 lb containers and have always used them for
>>>compost stuff. They have a lid, they are free, they can go into the
>>>dishwasher and are easily sacrificed/recycled if they grown green or
>>>nasty.
>>>
>>snip
>>>Boron
>>
>>I get the cottage cheese or sour cream in the 3 or 5 pound containers
>>and use them as you do. Nice lid, empty every day, and as you say,
>>dishwasher or recycle when necessary. Oh -- they're free to me.
>>Janet
>
> 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.

And you never get fruit flies? I was getting flies even when mine was
empty, washed out and with a new filter. I found the only way to stop them
was to put coffee filters between the filter and the container. Was a PITA
so I got rid of it.