Composting is an excellent way to go about reducing the overspills in our landfills. When you compost at home, you end up saving plenty of money from purchasing readymade compose from your local garden shop. In addition, you have nutrient-rich compost all year around to feed your plants and enrich the soil of your beds. It’s more like going old school with things, it is a small step in the right direction. If every household takes up this initiative, it would improve the health of our planet. Every day the average household has at least 8 liters of waste that includes spent food, Peelings from your fruits and vegetables, eggshells, coffee grounds, coffee filters, etc. If we compost our kitchen and yard waste regularly, we would make a major difference. I always prefer to have a smaller size compost bin, that I could place on my kitchen table as I work. I’m sure many of you that cook regularly, prefer to have a compact-size bin to place on your countertop. Now if you are an average-sized family, maybe of four members, and you don’t cook that often, you may end up collecting at least 20 liters of kitchen waste in one month. So annually you would have 240 liters of kitchen waste gathered. So, while selecting a compost bin, you must choose wisely the capacity required.
Sharing my experience, I have 2 Kobashi bins, with a capacity of 18 liters each. I have placed one outdoor and one in my kitchen. The one outdoor is currently brewing, it’s kept close to my compost can in the backyard. The Kobashi bucket that is placed in my kitchen is emptied once in two weeks. Hence in a month, I gather around 36 liters of kitchen waste. So, now I compress all the food waste within Kobashi bins and there is 15% of air voids. Hence the overall volume is 30 liters in a month. Over a period of time, I have learned the technique of keeping the Kobashi bucket well-drained. We utilize all the tea, that is collected at the bottom to feed the vegetables and flowers in the garden.
Once the brewed content is finally ready the Kobashi bucket can be emptied into the main composter. Give it a good mix with all the garden trimmings.
The Kobashi bucket is extremely handy especially, if you want to avoid all your kitchen scraps and leftover foods from piling in the landfills. If you have a lot of compostable materials, you can also add extra Kobashi bins, and you would have sufficiently compost for your garden beds all year round. In my case, I have added two more Kobashi bins in my backyard because, we seem to have plenty of garden waste that I would prefer to compost instead of discarding it.
The Kobashi compost bucket also includes, a user-friendly guide that will help you understand how to use it. It has detailed instructions, helping you to set it up and the best way for you to use it conveniently. Always remember to follow the manufacturer’s instructions for best results.
That’s all for this article, and I do hope that you have received more clarity on Kobashi compost buckets. Happy composting!