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I'd like one as well as it's good to recylce stuff.  I'm quite an addict now.  Sad innit  ;D

I thought cooked food , meat etc, attracted rats and mice? they 'd be able to smell it surely and tunnel in, especially if its dug into the ground?

They thought of that when they designed these gizmos. They are specially designed for bones and stuff and are not penetrable (is that right, sounds funny) so not rat probs  ;D

Go for it Georgie !! Can you use these things for pet poo ? That's something we have an endless supply of and I've often thought it'd be good to have a better way of disposing of it all. Let us know how you get on.

Any detail on time to decompose different things?

It says pet poo is OK but in small quantities. Depends on size of pet maybe??? ::)

Don't know how long it takes but certainly something is happening to ours - you get some bacterial accelerant with it - and every now and then it gets a dusting of that which seems to spur on the rotting process.

Oh right, well if its rodent proof then it sounds like a good idea. It must save on ground fill sites.

It is rodent proof - but says that you must not put it in  "a rat run" - if so - you have to protect the net basket with chicken wire. I think the website explains it all quite well.

So that's what the fuss was about! I have a compost bin which looks superficially similar, though it is just an ordinary bin of no particular value, and with no special innards. It was given to me by a plotholder who was leaving the site some years ago. The thief subsequently claimed that it was 'hers', it was special and valuable, you couldn't buy it, etc., etc. I never saw what she was going on about but she must have heard something about these things. She never got any of my bins, fortunately, since I fill them up the moment I've emptied them.