Composting 101

Krystal Persaud — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:28:31 +0000

My sister recently told me about how composting meat can be tricky because bacteria that grows faster than than the meat composts. Maybe thats why my composting bin smells so rancid right now? I have put small pieces of chicken and fish in there that were left overs on my plate. A possibility… I also had half of a container of ground beef that was sitting in my fridge for a week that I wasn’t able to eat.. and it started to smell A LOT. I just stuck it in the freezer because I don’t know what to do with it! I think I froze the stank out of it. But thats just a temporary fix… research on what to do with meats is to come…

I also need to buy an airtight container to properly compost my organic waste. I think an IKEA trip is in order.

Here is a long list of composting material I found: http://www.plantea.com/compost-materials.htm

A lot of stuff that I didn’t think could be composted.. can apparently. Like Jello? I’m kind of skeptical about that one. I feel like there are weird chemicals in Jello that shouldnt go in soil.. we’ll see…

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Composting 101