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-Keep a little compost container in your kitchen for food waste, and empty it into your compost bin when it's full. +_Keep a little compost container in your kitchen for food waste, and empty it into your compost bin when it's full._
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-Plastic composter: fresh material is added via the lid at the top, and finished compost is removed with a spade via the hatch at the bottom.+_Plastic composter: fresh material is added via the lid at the top, and finished compost is removed with a spade via the hatch at the bottom._
  
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-You can make your own compost containers from waste wood such as pallets, or you can buy or make slatted wooden containers like these (that look prettier). Note that there are two bins – one is added to until full, then it's allowed to break down while you fill the other one; when that one is full you empty the first one, and continue the cycle. The slats make it easy to empty the bins when the compost is ready.+_You can make your own compost containers from waste wood such as pallets, or you can buy or make slatted wooden containers like these (that look prettier). Note that there are two bins – one is added to until full, then it's allowed to break down while you fill the other one; when that one is full you empty the first one, and continue the cycle. The slats make it easy to empty the bins when the compost is ready._
  
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-Fresh organic matter recently added to the top of a compost bin – you can see fruit and vegetable peelings, eggshells, teabags, weeds, straw, paper and cardboard.+_Fresh organic matter recently added to the top of a compost bin – you can see fruit and vegetable peelings, eggshells, teabags, weeds, straw, paper and cardboard._
  
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-Composting with critters 1: tiger [worms](/verm/vermiculture).+_Composting with critters 1: tiger [worms](/verm/vermiculture)._
  
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-Composting with critters 2: cockroaches – really efficient converters, eat anything, don’t smell, shed their skin, which adds to the compost, and new cockroaches can be sold or given to pet shops for reptile food (they have to be contained of course – you don’t want them in your standard compost heap).+_Composting with critters 2: cockroaches – really efficient converters, eat anything, don’t smell, shed their skin, which adds to the compost, and new cockroaches can be sold or given to pet shops for reptile food (they have to be contained of course – you don’t want them in your standard compost heap)._
  
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-Composting with critters 3: ‘grub composting’ with black soldier fly larvae – they can be ‘farmed’ on kitchen and garden waste to produce compost; the larvae fall into a collection chamber and can be fed to [chickens](/chic/chickens) or ........ cooked and [eaten by humans](https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3018276/maggots-future-food-high-protein-small-carbon).+_Composting with critters 3: ‘grub composting’ with black soldier fly larvae – they can be ‘farmed’ on kitchen and garden waste to produce compost; the larvae fall into a collection chamber and can be fed to [chickens](/chic/chickens) or ........ cooked and [eaten by humans](https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3018276/maggots-future-food-high-protein-small-carbon)._
  
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-A green cone, which can digest meat, bones, dairy products, diseased plants or perennial weeds and return them to the soil.+_A green cone, which can digest meat, bones, dairy products, diseased plants or perennial weeds and return them to the soil._
  
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-If you buy bag compost make sure you don’t contribute to the destruction of peat bogs, by buying peat-free compost instead.+_If you buy bag compost make sure you don’t contribute to the destruction of peat bogs, by buying peat-free compost instead._
  
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 ## Further resources ## Further resources
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 +- [Feasibility study for on-farm composting](https://compost.css.cornell.edu/feas.study.html)
 +- [Garden Organic](https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/expert-advice/garden-management/composting) - how to make compost
 +- [Become a master composter for your community](https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/what-we-do/supporting-volunteers/master-composters)
 +- [Agricultural composting basics](https://www.lowimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/05-023.pdf)
 +- [US Composting Council](https://www.compostingcouncil.org/)
 +- [Composting organisms](https://www.lowimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/CompostingOrganisms.pdf)
 +- [Compost Guy](https://www.compostguy.com/composting-basics/)
  
  
  
-## Specialists+## Specialist curators of this topic
  
  
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