Kitchen Waste to Compost steps
Below are your collective inputs on how Kitchen Waste can be converted to Compost. If you have additional inputs for a better process/experiences to share in this area, please do share.
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Kitchen Waste to Compost process
1. Separate your edible kitchen waste (vegetable peels, fruit peels, and 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.
7. Use a mixer for making the kitchen waste into a pulp form and mix with half bucket of water. Use this mix as a manure for your garden and plants
8. Small the pieces, faster the composting
9. One could also use a tumbler made from industrial bin. It has a handle outside to rotate the drum. The drum should be fixed on a stand and there should be an opening in the tumbler to put the stuff in. It should have holes for aeration
10. ‘Bokashi’ is another way of fermenting kitchen waste; it is good for homes which do not have much open space
11. Neem oil and neem powder can be used during fermenting to expedite the process and to keep rodents away. more
Swachh Bharat Mission
Kitchen Waste to Compost process
1. Separate your edible kitchen waste (vegetable peels, fruit peels, and 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.
7. Use a mixer for making the kitchen waste into a pulp form and mix with half bucket of water. Use this mix as a manure for your garden and plants
8. Small the pieces, faster the composting
9. One could also use a tumbler made from industrial bin. It has a handle outside to rotate the drum. The drum should be fixed on a stand and there should be an opening in the tumbler to put the stuff in. It should have holes for aeration
10. ‘Bokashi’ is another way of fermenting kitchen waste; it is good for homes which do not have much open space
11. Neem oil and neem powder can be used during fermenting to expedite the process and to keep rodents away. more
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To expect every household to do this is impractical. Very few will remember steps, very few will have time and a rare few can ever put this effort. It can only be done where all waste r collected by seperation of such waste regularly. Regards, Amrita Chowdhury more
Jul 26
Is there any equipments available in the market ? Let that be made available first to teach the housewife to segrigate the kitchen waste. more
Jul 24
Very timely scheme to encourage lessening the volume of garbage and increase natural manure more
Jul 22
we can dig a corner of the lawn arround 2 ft. deep and put veg. fruits and garden leaves and cover it .will turn it into organic manure. saroj chadha more
Jul 22
