Composting

Subject: Composting Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:19 pm

Anyone compost? Have any tips for composting in the winter?

Subject: Re: Composting Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:23 pm

We do, but we don't have winters so I don't know if that affects it at all.

Subject: Re: Composting Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:57 pm

Aaron wrote:: Anyone compost? Have any tips for composting in the winter?

Composting will work during the winter, because it generates its own heat. But it needs to be insulated just like your house, otherwise the busy little "bugs" may get too cold for comfort. And uncomfortable bugs tend to hibernate.

http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/tompkins/compost/Winter%20Composting.pdf

Subject: Re: Composting Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:21 pm

Thanks for the link! Very informative.

Subject: Re: Composting Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:02 am

Yeah I compost my vegetable and fruit and plant matter but basically don't do it in the winter so I'll consider Gnomon's advice. But probably let it hibernate to the spring. In Toronto our compost (basically all living remains) is picked up weekly, as well. Did you know all of Toronto's garbage not put into composting or our intensive recycling program, is transported, truck by truck, to a landfill in Michigan, has been for years. How stupid is that.

Subject: Re: Composting Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:53 am

Seems like a long way to go to dump your garbage.

Subject: Re: Composting Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:14 pm

Yeah, not to mention the wait at the border. Absurd.

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the Man makes me compost...he even offered to sell me a bin to put stuff in!!

Subject: Re: Composting Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:15 pm

Interesting. Think

Subject: Re: Composting Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:08 pm

I think it says a lot about America, and capitalism in general actually, that we'll let other country's dump their garbage here just for a quick buck.

Subject: Re: Composting Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:50 am

Yeah, actually it was increasingly causing more of a ruckus so there's only a year or two left and then it will stop forever.
Even then our garbage is still going to be trucked at least two hours away, truck by truck by truck.

Subject: Re: Composting Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:17 am

I think Toronto should pile it up somewhere on the outskirts of the city and then put a ski slope on it. Who knows, maybe it'll help them to make a push for a Winter Olympics or something.

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lol...why do that when Michigan will take it and skiing is just thirty minutes north? Smile

Subject: Re: Composting Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:47 pm

Uriah wrote:: I think it says a lot about America, and capitalism in general actually, that we'll let other country's dump their garbage here just for a quick buck.

One man's trash is another's treasure????

Look on the bright side : Garbage dumps are the "natural" resources of the future. Cool