How to do
How to make compost from food scraps
1. Prepare a plastic fermentation tank with a lid of 20 liters using hot steel. Drill holes around the tank to be used as a vent. Then wrapped in a net to prevent the flies to lay their eggs and cause annoyance
How to make compost from food scraps
2. Put food fragments, manure, and leaf fragments, each 1 part into the mixing tank, mix thoroughly then close the lid. Initially, no need to add water because food scraps are highly humid If there is more food the next day, mix the manure and leaf fragments in the same ratio Can fit again into the bucket
How to make compost from microbial food waste
3. Mix the ingredients with wood. Mix 1-2 times a day. During the first 3-10 days, heat may occur. Because microbes emit heat to decompose the reaction If the moisture decreases almost dry Should add more water
How to make compost from food scraps
4. Takes about 30 days to get a 40 percent reduction in the amount of compost if the fertilizer is still moisture. Should refrain from sprinkling water and let it dry completely. So that the microbes stop degradation The compost will be dark black, macroporous, smaller, lighter and without a bad odor.
Tips
- Large communities such as schools, temples, prisons, offices or government buildings There will be a lot of food waste each day. Therefore should use a larger fermenter container May use a suitable size metal tank or modified round plastic cylinder Hole in the lid to allow air to flow. Covered with a grill to prevent flies. Then turn over the food scraps by rolling the bucket back and forth
- Can use 1 meter diameter cement pond as a composting container Then put the dry leaves Followed by food waste Then put the dried leaves that are digested and overlap again During fermentation, the pile of fertilizer will collapse. Then can take food scraps and dried leaves to be crushed and poured on top of each other continuously. It takes about 30 days to compost
Compost from food scraps, cement ponds
Compost is another type of organic fertilizer obtained from the fermentation of some organic material. By bringing those materials to pile together, water, moist, leaving them to degrade by microbial activities From then to improve the soil Which aside from making compost from food waste in the household There are many organic compost that are easy to find in each locality, so try it. Whether compost from waste materials from mushroom cultivation Bagasse compost Water Hyacinth Compost Earthworm fertilizer, fish compost, bio-fertilizer, etc.
