Anyone thinking of trying one of these?
http://www.hotbincomposting.com/index.aspx?gclid=CKndptWmp64CFSMLtAodCy9RSQ (http://www.hotbincomposting.com/index.aspx?gclid=CKndptWmp64CFSMLtAodCy9RSQ)
I keep hearing/reading about them, but at £138 it would have to be good!
Not too sure I want it ready in 90 days,would imagine I'd have piles of the stuff sitting round not being used?
I have a traditional open heap and only put on it plant and vegetable matter and balance it with dry sticks ,n, leaves and rain water that goes in naturally .
Shouldnt encourage people to put cooked food waste into the compost heap for hygiene reasons . I guess these are being promoted for folk with smaller gardens . . . . . oh well ..... so long as ...smells cant get out and rats cant get in ! :P
I've just had a look at their website. It looks brilliant but rather pricey. I'd need to save up for one of those!!
On the other hand, thinking of the "flaming wheeliebins" thread, a bin like this could seriously reduce council recycling costs. (I just got a letter to say they're now going to start recycling food waste so we'll get another bin (our 5th) and a kitchen caddy for that.)
With one of these hot bins I would only have glass and tins for recycling, and cat litter and the bits of plastic/ polystyrene they don't recycle for the standard waste bin. So they wouldn't need to collect garden rubbish, food waste, paper or cardboard.
I don't think I'd bother at my allotment though, where I rotate my daleks! At home I have a relatively small garden so this would be ideal.
Quote from: caroline7758 on February 18, 2012, 10:22:04
I keep hearing/reading about them, but at £138 it would have to be good!
I don't know, I could tie an awful lot of pallets together for £138.
My heart (my love of gadgets) says yes, but my head says no. It's jolly expensive for a 200 litre bin! Also, I'm always suspicious of anything whose troubleshooting manual is longer than the basic instructions.
I can see the attraction of being able to compost meat waste, but we don't generate much of that at all. Once upon a time we used to put all our kitchen waste into the appropriate wheely bin. Now that we have chickens on the allotment, I have to visit them at dawn and dusk, so I take our compostable kitchen waste with me and add it to our compost bin. Our wheely bin is now almost empty - just meat trimmings, bones and occasionally stale bread crusts.
You can wrap a lot of bubble wrap round your existing bin for that amount as well ! Cheers, Tony.