>> You need two element in a compost heat. Nitrogen and Carbon.
Ours, in a bin provided by the council well over 10 years ago, seems to rely mainly on insects and worms. Doesn't need turning and never smells. Waste material goes in at the top and fine compost is removed from the bottom in spring. Different method, different sort of compost I guess.
A few purely vegetable things don't compost well - Avocado skins for one.
Other items you'd expect to break down because they're 'paper' turn out not to compost at all. Some brands of tea bag for example. Emptied ours last weekend and picked out 20+ pyramid shaped tea bags with tags. Think they were fruity ones from France. Some types of kitchen roll leave a 'mesh' residue as well but that breaks down when the compost is forked into the soil.
Cardboard with a laminated outer layer used to be an oddity too. The cardboard itself would go but the outer film, still identifiable as a brand of OTC painkiller, would emerge in the compost.
Last edited by: VxFan on Sat 11 Apr 20 at 17:30
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