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Agreeing to a compost bin. Any recommendations for something as unobtrusive
as possible?

Top posting forced me to hack down the garbled remainder of your post
with a machete.

Find out subtly what he thinks compost heaps look like. (plastic
dalek, mound of dead vegetation, cube of wood, fake beehive) Clue; do
not use a multiple choice question in your research. The right model can
be chosen from the ones he doesn't know about.

Janet.