cloneboy: brianasalese: Look who has a #compost #bin :) @gobblesgonzo @nickbyrd @myloveb we are so #green!!! Taking #methane from #food #waste out of #landfills #! (Taken with instagram) I bought one of these bins to set up at my parents’ place. When I was still living in CA, I spent the weekends there (I was living with an an aunt and uncle since they were closer to where I worked,) so I could maintain the bin, adding materials as they became available, and watering the pile when needed. I put almost EVERYTHING I could into the bin, making sure to bury some of the compost no-nos (meat, dairy, etc.) in the middle of the pile I managed to the the thing going thermophilic for a few days at a time, so I’m confident that no rodents were attracted to it. I had a blast poking around in the bin and tracking how quickly certain things were decomposing. Now that I’ve moved to AZ, my parents hardly add anything to the bin, though my dad might put grass clippings in it when he mows the lawn. My mom is convinced that the compost attracted rats to our attic, and I can’t solidly refute this, but it seems very unlikely. Even though they used the compost I made to re-pot a sago palm they keep in the front yard, they seem oblivious to the benefits of composting, and I have to constantly remind my mom that organic refuse ending up in a landfill is NOT the same thing as composting.

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brianasalese:

Look who has a #compost #bin :) @gobblesgonzo @nickbyrd @myloveb we are so #green!!! Taking #methane from #food #waste out of #landfills #! (Taken with instagram)

I bought one of these bins to set up at my parents’ place. When I was still living in CA, I spent the weekends there (I was living with an an aunt and uncle since they were closer to where I worked,) so I could maintain the bin, adding materials as they became available, and watering the pile when needed. I put almost EVERYTHING I could into the bin, making sure to bury some of the compost no-nos (meat, dairy, etc.) in the middle of the pile I managed to the the thing going thermophilic for a few days at a time, so I’m confident that no rodents were attracted to it. I had a blast poking around in the bin and tracking how quickly certain things were decomposing.

Now that I’ve moved to AZ, my parents hardly add anything to the bin, though my dad might put grass clippings in it when he mows the lawn. My mom is convinced that the compost attracted rats to our attic, and I can’t solidly refute this, but it seems very unlikely. Even though they used the compost I made to re-pot a sago palm they keep in the front yard, they seem oblivious to the benefits of composting, and I have to constantly remind my mom that organic refuse ending up in a landfill is NOT the same thing as composting.

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