Reducing your food waste even further
You can deal with cooked or processed food waste at home and slim your bin even further.
There are four ways to deal with your cooked food waste within your own home or garden which, when combined with home composting could eliminate food waste from your rubbish altogether.
Green Cone
A Green Cone is a specially designed digester for cooked and processed food waste. Micro-organisms and worms already present in the soil will break down the waste and convert it into water and carbon dioxide and a small amount of residue. The water contains nutrients from the food waste which leaches into the soil and so adds nutrients to the ground.
Green Cone’s are easy to use but they need to be placed in a sunny position in the garden and dug in. All food waste, both cooked and uncooked meat, fish, bones, bread, dairy products, vegetables, fruit, tea bags and eggs shells can be placed into the Green Cone.
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Green Johanna
The Green Johanna was developed in Sweden to provide a successful way of composting both food and garden waste. Green Johanna’s have a fixed rodent-proof base, an adjustable ventilation system and optional insulating jacket so composting can take place all year round.
Green Johanna’s work in the same way as a traditional compost bin where waste is added and compost is produced. They can be used to compost raw fruit and vegetable peelings, garden waste, paper and card. Cooked and processed food such as dairy products, fish, shellfish, meat, bones, bread, cheese and pasta can also be included.
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Wormery
Composting with worms is easy as the worms do all the hard work. All you have to do is to feed them small amounts regularly. Composting worms digest foods such as fruit and vegetable peelings, tea bags, coffee grounds, crushed eggshells, cooked food scraps, shredded paper and card.
A Composting worm differs from an earthworm because it eats and survives on decaying foods, whereas an earthworm burrows deep into the ground. Composting worms digest food waste to produce a high quality, nutrient rich, textured compost. Another by-product of a wormery is a nutrient rich liquid which can be used as a plant food once diluted.
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Bokashi bin
All food waste including cooked and uncooked meat, fish, bones, dairy products, bread, pasta, fruit scraps and vegetable peelings can be put into a bokashi bin. Friendly micro-organisms ferment the food waste to produce a nutrient rich compost.
Food waste is added to a special caddy on a daily basis along with a handful of special bran containing the friendly micro-organisms until it is full. It is then left to ferment for two weeks before being added to a compost bin or dug into the ground. Two caddies are used; whilst the first one is fermenting, the second one can be filled. The tap allows you to drain the liquid which can be used as a plant food.
To find out more information please click on the factsheet below.