Go to Home Page Before you can know how to recycle plastic, you need to know what type of plastic you have in your hand. There are many different types of plastic. Some are easy to recycle plastics that should be made use of. There are other types of plastic that are so difficult to
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Go to Home Page Citrus fruits are an important part of most peoples’ diets but there are many who worry about the effect that citrus fruit peels may have on their compost. So, here we consider, what some feel, a potential problem and ask: can you put citrus in compost? You can put citrus in
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Go to Home Page Someone contacted Rolypig.com and asked about putting paper towels in compost. Everyone uses paper towels, they are highly convenient and relatively cheap. Whenever there’s a spill it’s so easy to grab one from the roll to mop up and you’re done. But where do you dispose of it? All to often
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Go to Home Page You can put broccoli in compost. Broccoli must be classed as nitrate-rich ‘greens’. Depending on how much broccoli you want to put in the compost, it may need to be balanced with carbon-based ‘browns’ to make successful compost. Hydrated white lime will improve your compost as a whole. Some people love
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Go to Home Page You can put avocado peels in compost. Avocado peels need to be chopped as finely as possible to allow them to mix in with everything else in the compost. It may take a longer time for avocado peels to fully break down in compost. This won’t be a problem if they
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Go to Home Page Quite often people will have a go at making compost. They will gather together a heap or start loading a bin. Then, after a while, they see lots of flies and there is a bad smell and they ask, why have I got such smelly compost? Smelly compost is a clear
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Go to Home Page There are boxes and bags of powders that contain a ‘magic’ ingredient with a claim that it will accelerate the composting process, but do they really? I’ve used one of these accelerators called ‘Garotta’ but I’m a little mystified about what is actually in it and what is a compost accelerator?
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Go to Home Page Many of us take the view that all our waste can be put in a trash can and sent away to become someone else’s responsibility. There are many who would make use of this waste but they have questions about how to go about it. One of the main questions is
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Go to Home Page Your compost bin is an ideal place to get rid of all that messy stuff that turns up from time to time. Anything that’s obviously gone bad, mouldy or just has a whiff, can go in the compost and you can then forget about it. You’ll never see it again because
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Go to Home Page One of the things about making compost is that the words ‘composting’ and ‘speed’ don’t go together. I’ve been looking around to see if anyone has any ideas to add to my own because if there are ways of speeding up the process we need to know about them. So, How
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