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Kitchen Waste Resource Page

Composting Systems

Note that the Foods Room produces up to 10 pounds of waste per day (one 5 gallon bucket).

"Compost Bin Decomposition Composition." Photo by Andrew King. CC/By/SA

Use the resouces listed on this page to complete your research.

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Bokashi Composting

Bokashi Composting Australia

Green Calgary: Bokashi Composting

Pricing: Green Calgary

Food Digester

Backyard Food Digesters: A fact sheet from the Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre.

Davis Recycling, Recycling Information for Davis California: Scroll down to Option 3.

Pricing: Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre

Compostec sells Green Cone food digesters. Get prices from their website.

Nature Mill Composter

Nature Mill: from the company that produces Nature Mill composters. Be sure to navigate to "How it Works." You should check out the specifications link and take a look at this link on the Nature Mill's capacity.

Mrs. MacAulay: That's right, Mrs. MacAulay has used the Nature Mill composter.

Naturally Speaking: Green Gadgets, the Automatic Composter: provides a review of earlier models ( 2008 review)

Sustain Lane: provides a current review of Nature Mill (2010 review).

Pricing: Nature Mill

Worm Composters

Vermicomposting, Composting Indoors With Worms: a fact sheet from the Greater Vancouver Compost Education Centre

Here's the Dirt, Worm Composting: a pamphlet issued by Metro Vancouver.

Organic Living Corner, Composting Worm Facts: This is a commercial website. You can get prices and instructions here.

Get tips from Amanda Vantol of North Shore Recycling.

Pricing Storage Bins Amanda Vantol of North Shore Recycling recommends using 53 litre (14 US gallons) bins. Look on the Rubbermaid Website for the Roughneck bin #2212.

Pricing Worms see Worm Guys.com

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To Garburate or Not to Garburate?

Read Vanessa Farquharson's article in the National Post and then decide: "Sense & Sustainability: The Loud Whir of Righteousness.".

Here's Another Composting System To Consider

The Jora Composter

Waste Not, Want Not: Why Try to Divert Waste from the Landfill?

We truck our waste to Cache Creek. Do you know how far away that is? Soon the landfill will be full and we have to figure out what to do about it. Read what four UBC students who have researched the problem are recommending: "Recycle More - Waste Less..."