A Kitchen Compost Bin Will Save You From Those Frequent Trips To The Composter
When you have a kitchen compost bin you will no longer have to make frequent trips to your composter. You can keep several days worth of food scraps in a filtered bin right in your kitchen and not have a mess or odor.
A kitchen bin that you have for food scraps comes in two sizes. One is small enough to sit out on your counter top. These are also decorative so no one but you will know that you are keeping recyclable food scraps in your kitchen. The next size is more like a little garbage can that can fit under your sink. Both come with charcoal filters so there will be no odor as you fill them and keep them inside for a few days.
In either case, a kitchen compost bin will save you time and money by allowing you to keep your kitchen waste conveniently, instead of putting it into the trash and paying to have it taken away. You will no longer have animals ripping through your garbage to get at your food scraps either.
Your pets will not be able to smell the food inside either, because of the filtering system the kitchen compost bin has. Guest in your home will only notice your beautiful garden that you hae from your homemade soil conditioner and not the food scraps you are keeping in your kitchen.
If the time it takes to go to your compost pile after every meal is a concern for you these bins will make your life easier. You can gather days of scraps before having to make a trip outside. Time adds up when you schedule is already full and you are looking for every extra minute you can find.
Composting your kitchen and garden waste is a great way to get your own chemical free fertilizer. The best kitchen wastes are fruits, vegetables, coffee grinds and eggshells. Keeping a bin in your kitchen takes away the temptation to throw these items in the trash instead of composting them. You cannot make your outdoor compost without these items.
If you don't want to bring your scraps outside after every meal you may not recycle them. But, when you have a convenient kitchen compost bin you can toss your food waste in there just as easily as throwing them in the garbage.
Richard Gravinosa writes about enriching garden soil at his website, MyCompostumbler.com. Read more about wormery and back porch compost tumbler.
