Kitchen Waste to Compost - How To and Inputs
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Easy steps to compost your kitchen waste
1. Separate your edible kitchen waste (vegetable peels, fruit peels, small amounts of wasted cooked food) in a container
2. Collect dry organic matter (dried leaves, sawdust) in a small container
3. Take a large earthen pot or a bucket and drill 4 – 5 holes around the container at different levels to let air inside.
4. Line the bottom with a layer of soil.
5. Now start adding food waste in layers alternating wet waste (food scraps, vegetable and fruit peels) with dry waste (straw, sawdust, dried leaves).
6. Cover this container with a plastic sheet or a plank of wood to help retain moisture and heat.
Every few days, use a rake to give the pile a quick turn to provide aeration. If you think the pile is too dry, sprinkle some water so that it is moist.
Within 2 - 3 months, your pile should start forming compost that is dry, dark brown and crumbly and smelling of earth. There are also readymade composting kits available for those who want to overcome initial resistance to starting composting.
With time and a little patience, composting will become second nature to you.
By segregating, recycling and composting, a family of 4 can reduce their waste from 1000 Kg to less than 100 kg every year.
The above was published in The Hindu more
Let us together make composting more common than it is today.
Swachh Bharat Mission
Easy steps to compost your kitchen waste
1. Separate your edible kitchen waste (vegetable peels, fruit peels, small amounts of wasted cooked food) in a container
2. Collect dry organic matter (dried leaves, sawdust) in a small container
3. Take a large earthen pot or a bucket and drill 4 – 5 holes around the container at different levels to let air inside.
4. Line the bottom with a layer of soil.
5. Now start adding food waste in layers alternating wet waste (food scraps, vegetable and fruit peels) with dry waste (straw, sawdust, dried leaves).
6. Cover this container with a plastic sheet or a plank of wood to help retain moisture and heat.
Every few days, use a rake to give the pile a quick turn to provide aeration. If you think the pile is too dry, sprinkle some water so that it is moist.
Within 2 - 3 months, your pile should start forming compost that is dry, dark brown and crumbly and smelling of earth. There are also readymade composting kits available for those who want to overcome initial resistance to starting composting.
With time and a little patience, composting will become second nature to you.
By segregating, recycling and composting, a family of 4 can reduce their waste from 1000 Kg to less than 100 kg every year.
The above was published in The Hindu more
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The suggestions are quite useful. The segregated waste should be dumped in a pit and may be covered with earth soil after watering. Waste will be converted into compost fertiliser within a month and it will be useful for growing vegetables etc. more
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