Want to Begin Composting? Try Using a Compost Bucket
A compost bucket allows people who lives in suburban or urban areas to compost their food wastes just like people in rural communities do. It is just on a smaller scale and provisions have been made so that the bucket can be kept in the house for a short period of time. These buckets will have features such as charcoal filters which minimize the smell emitted from the compost bucket, allowing you to use it indoors.
Instead of having to bring your food wastes outdoors every day, due to smells and bugs, you can simply deposit them into a compost bucket. The bucket keeps odors inside with its filters and bugs in/out with its air-tight lid. Most often, people will keep these buckets on a counter top or under a cabinet for ease of access, but not letting it be overbearing to your kitchen’s design.
The odor filters, often made of charcoal, tend to last between 3-4 months and can be bought in packs of six at a time. This means that one pack could last you up to two years! The filters are inexpensive and simple to replace. If your bucket does not come with odor filters, a layer of straw or paper might do the trick. It will not work as well as the filters though, so you may need to dump it more often than you would a filtered bucket. Remember that either bucket will get smelly after a while. The buckets usuallyshould be dumped, or left outside after a week or two. No matter how well your filter does its job, if you open the lid late in the process, you may get the smell and it can get into your home. Try to be sure to only open it at this point in a well ventilated area, perhaps one with a fan.
You can compost lots of things-and they can all be thrown right into the compost bucket. This includes: vegetable scraps, coffee grinds and filters, eggshells, and tea bags.
There are many things that you can do to your compost bucket to make the compost decompose quicker and better. Chopping up everything you put in there helps. The smaller the waste that you put into the bucket, the quicker it will decompose. Put in a variety of materials. Use a mixture of moist, green, nitrogen-rich materials with dry brown carbon rich materials. This makes your final product more balanced. Keep all of these materials moist. Depending on what wastes you are using, and where you live, you may need to add water to the mixture. Keep it as moist as a wrung out sponge. The moist-ness also speeds up the decomposition process.
Placing your bucket someplace where it will get a lot of sun will also speed up the decomposition process. This is because heat speeds up the process considerably. So think about keeping your bucket on a counter which gets direct sunlight. Another good way to speed up the process is to be sure to roll around the bucket daily. This mixes all of the ingredients together and makes sure all of the wastes are evenly distributed.
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