This will make you smile... :rolleyes:

I hit a very environmental patch about a year or so ago. You could call it my Green Period (well, why not? Picasso had a Blue Period).

Anyway in a fit of enthusiasm for recycling and all things natural, I bought a Bokashi Bucket. This is a small square lidded waste bucket with a grid at the bottom and a liquid trap beneath the grid and a tap to draw off the liquid.

All your kitchen food scraps go into this bucket: vegetable and fruit peelings, used teabags (of course why would you put new ones in?) eggshells, leftovers cooked or raw, you name it, you can chuck it. Each night when you've finished chucking for the day you tamp it down with a spud-masher or similar and sprinkle a layer this special grain with microbes in called Bokashi, and gradually it ferments down and the liquid produced drips into the trap underneath and you can draw it off and use it diluted as plant fertiliser. Perfect for a unit dweller with about a mile to walk to the bin-room, I thought. The solid stuff ferments and when the bucket is full you tip it into a trench about a foot (30cm) deep in the garden.

IF you have a garden

The bucket might take a week or six to fill depending on the size of your household. It does NOT smell at all. The solid does not break down to a friable compost, when you tip out the bucket it will look as it did when you chucked it in there, only it is fermented. It is the action of soil bacteria in the earth (in your garden or allotment) which complete the breaking down process. In about three weeks you will have rich, friable soil for growing massive marrows and pumpkins which you can peel and cook and throw the peelings in the Bokashi bucket and so it goes on, you get the picture.

Well, I managed to find a friend with a tiny patch of garden for the first binful. The second time I drove it up to the yoga ashram I've attended, 120km away. I have no garden here to dispose of it and frankly I cannot continue to spend money to save the earth from my landfill! :blushing:

It cost me about $100 to buy new and the Bokashi is $15 a pack which will last about 2-3 months.

If anyone on here is a keen gardener and wants it I am happy to take $50 for it and I will box it up and post it to you. It's in as-new condition.

Any takers please PM me.

Thanks
TopCat