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carolynp z7 (
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Sat, Nov 13, 10 at 19:59
| I am looking for someone who actually practices bokashi to give me a review. I also have some other questions for general composters. I know that for most compost folks, bokashi represents an extra step that isn't necessary. Do you think that it would be a good concept to be used for an apartment dweller? Perhaps for a restaurant that can't dump organic matter for a week or two? |
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RE: Bokashi
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Bokashi might be something an apartment dweller might want to look into IF there is no community compost pile in the works and getting one started is not possible. It will be expensive and composting does not need to be.
I cannot even begin to think of anywhere a resturant would be allowed by the local Public Health people to accumulate garbage for more than a day or two. |
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| That's my ignorance showing, I had no idea restaurants had to have daily garbage service. Isn't bokashi a faster method? Wouldn't you expect the cost to come down if it became more popular? I suppose I'm under the impression that you could use an old bucket and make your own hole, so it looks (this is superficial only) like it could be done cheaply. |
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| I would think that resturants would be only interested in getting rid of "the stuff" quickly. I do use some bokashi in the septic tank monthly. |
RE: Bokashi
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If what I read in numerous publications can be trusted there are a large number of resturants that do compost their food waste, but I know of none that allow food waste to accumulate for days on end because that would attract vermin that the public health people would not be very happy seeing.
The Bokashi additive is an expensive, and unneccessary, expense to composting for most of us. That would be kind of like spending money on a "Compost Activator" that is an expensive Nitrogen source. |
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| I don't know of any restaurants that have daily garbage service. I was at a behind the scenes tour of the local hospital today and their kitchen scraps are ground and dewatered, making them into a fine mulch. It looks mostly like shredded paper (from the napkins). It was kewl. I do know that the local company that runs the landfill, will collect seperated compost and compostables through a special arrangement. Generally they enter into these agreements with large generators like schools and hospitals. |
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| i know of only one person that does the bokashi method, which is funny because she also has a killer worm bin and huge compost bins out back. then again, it is fun to compost as many ways as possible...however, bokashi is pretty expensive as each bag only lasts for two buckets or so. blah. worm bins are my suggested method of choice in apartments. once you get over day 1 when they might try to pack up and leave and you respond by adding more bedding/more air holes, they'll relax and you're good to go. |
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