"Julie Bove" wrote:
>"Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
.. .
>> 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.
>>>
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>>>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.
>
>I get that size. Never thought to use them for that.
I have a pair of tin snips that I use to cut up plastic containers so
they occupy less space in the recyclables bin... I collapse all
boxes/cartons, and squash metal cans and plastic bottles flat by
stomping. This is a great way to rid oneself of aggressions.
As to composting, everyone has a different situation so it's
definitely not a one size fits all endeaver. I like keeping my
composting bin alongside my vegetable garden, which is too difficult
to reach during winter, that's when I dump my compost bucket into the
large plastic cat litter buckets I keep in my garage, they freeze
solid all winter. In fact they are just starting to thaw so in about
a week I'll haul them out to my composting bin. I have no reason to
use compost bucket liners, in warmer weather I hose out the bucket
outdoors, during winter I put in some water at the kitchen sink, slosh
it a bit and dump it onto the lawn out my back door; fertilizer tea...
one of my little tricks is each time I add to the clean bucket it's a
couple of loads of coffee grounds with the paper filter at the bottom
first, with subsequent paper filters interspersed with veggie parings,
this makes the bucket emptying pretty clean... paper coffee filters
compost very readily. Each year I end up with more than fifty gallons
of very rich compost just from kitchen scraps so to me it's worth the
little extra effort... I'd still need to dispose of the kitchen scraps
anyway. And maybe I don't have as many kitchen scraps as most, many
parings and cores go out into my yard to feed the critters, as do meat
scraps, even pork chop bones and chicken bones tossed out into my yard
disappear practically before I can get back inside, crows are fabulous
foragers... a busted up chicken carcass is lunch for a murder of
crows. An interesting habit of crows unlike other birds is that they
never eat where they find food, as soon as they feel secure they fly
off with it, they snatch and go, so I never find any bones on my lawn.
The silly Canada geese eat where I toss them bread and so about half
the time they lose it to daring crows and even bullying deer. Canada
geese and deer don't eat meat but crows eat most everything except
veggies. A crow can easily fly off with a steak bone.... they have a
little more trouble with a large hunk of stale bread so they peck at
it until they can lift off with it, sliced bread they fold into
quarters so it doesn't flop about and offers less wind resistance,
smarter than most rfc posters. And anything large I put out during
the day will definitely disappear after dark, most larger critters are
nocternal.