Wednesday, 9 April 2008

How We Manage Kitchen/Food Waste

We started composting our kitchen/food waste last June. My friend J & H introduced the method to manage kitchen/food waste using a bucket and bokashi. Bokashi is a compost-starter and has EM (effective microorganisms) and the biotechnology comes from Japan. (For more information, please visit sustaining our environment..together ok, so I need not explain so much here.. hehehe)

Some pix to show how we do it at home:

We keep the waste in a container (reduce all moisture as much as possible and cover)


This is the compost bucket (has a special place on a chair in our kitchen! LOL)

Ahh.. the container especially to keep the bokashi. It has to be kept away from direct sunlight.

Mix a layer of bokashi and food waste alternately.. Cover the bucket tightly.


*Shania helping me* (o;

The kitchen bio-juice can be collected everyday or every other day. It can be used to clean the toilet and drains, to get rid of grease in the sink, etc

The bottle must be labelled the date the bio-juice is collected. It can be used after 2-3 days. The solid waste can be transfered to the ground and mixed with soil to become compost. Since we are staying in an apartment, hubby usually sends the solid waste to my brother's house for his plants. *grin*

Again, please visit sustaining our environment...together for more info ya! *wink*

3 comments:

bZbee said...

ko belum nampak lagi how my mom uses the kitchen waste to make it as baja for her plants..thats why i think the fruits and whatever on her compound are organic..more or less la...she's been doin this since early 90's...she learned from her ma juga la..

Anonymous said...

wah so nice oh! she kubur the sisa makanan ka? that's very handy kan kalau the compound besar. :o) a few of my friends are doing that.

Unknown said...

This is such a great idea and i hope i can make my own compost one day..but where do you actually buy the bokashi?:)