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:mute: The dwyl London office, No. 16 Palmers Rd
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Food waste recycling #100

Open Jbarget opened 7 years ago

Jbarget commented 7 years ago

In line with DWYLs values (I cant find the readme that would have dwyls values in it) i think it would be great to start composting.

I've been using this and all is working great. I know @iteles wanted to know whether it would smell bad, and I can say there is no smell coming from it apart from general earth smell.

ZooeyMiller commented 7 years ago

What would be done with the compost? Would it be taken by a waste collection business? Or would someone take it for a garden?

Definitely need a plan of what to do with the compost before starting imo.

Jbarget commented 7 years ago

The rate at which the food waste is turned into compost is fairly slow, i've got about 750 grams of worms in my one and it takes them about 2-3 weeks to digest 1.5 litres of food waste (roughly 1-2 weeks of food waste).

I reckon we could have a policy for people to take compost if they need. We also have lots of neighbours at focus hub (upstairs on the decking) who have plants in their front gardens. It also produces plant feed that comes out through the tap that we can give away as well.

The system of what i posted above takes about 6 months to fill up if we left it and didnt take anything out.

ghost commented 7 years ago

@Jbarget is it still working? Would you recommend? If so I think we'll buy it

Jbarget commented 7 years ago

@markwilliamfirth yes it is and I would recommend.

I would say its good to buy some extra worms as well since 250g wasnt enough for the amount of food waste I was producing (it can also handle paper/cardboard)

I ended up buying an extra 500g of tiger worms

iteles commented 6 years ago

Let's figure out where we'll put this first please - even a general earth smell can be a little offputting indoors in the winter when it gets stuffy! We might want to get to grips with #99 first and then trial this when we can have open doors just in case (i.e. Spring rather than Winter).

I'm kind of loving all this chat about worms. 🐛