Lucy & Howard Albert wrote:
I came up with this idea decades ago and it uses many common household
materials. If I were to just post the "secret formula", it moves from
marketable idea to interesting idea.


If that's the case, then your marketable idea is the "secret", not the
product.

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On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:59:13 -0400, "Lucy & Howard Albert"
wrote:

I've come up with a potential business idea to compost grass clippings and
leaves, using disposable plastic bags as the composting containers, rather
than composting stations.

The idea is to add a (secret) formula to compostable waste and turn it into
a useful garden material over several weeks of passive exterior storage,
without the exertion of rotating or emptying storage bins.

I think this approach would appeal to the un-diehard gardener.

Feel free to contact me at . I will also
monitor this ng for a while.



I've read that shredded newspaper is a good mix with grass clippings.
Grass has lots of nitrogen, needs some carbon for balanced.
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- Charles
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"Lucy & Howard Albert" said:

I came up with this idea decades ago and it uses many common
household materials. If I were to just post the "secret formula", it
moves from marketable idea to interesting idea.

"Lucy & Howard Albert" said:
The idea is to add a (secret) formula to compostable waste

Why does it have to be secret? There are thousands of successful
products that do not have 'secret' ingredients. I would say there
are very few products that depend on a 'secret' ingredient, most of
them on late night television.

Guess what... you could make your own glass cleaner at home but most
people don't.
--
McQualude

"Lucy & Howard Albert" wrote in message
...
I've come up with a potential business idea to compost grass clippings and
leaves, using disposable plastic bags as the composting containers, rather
than composting stations.

The idea is to add a (secret) formula to compostable waste and turn it
into
a useful garden material over several weeks of passive exterior storage,
without the exertion of rotating or emptying storage bins.

I think this approach would appeal to the un-diehard gardener.

Feel free to contact me at . I will also
monitor this ng for a while.



Plenty of products have secret ingredients, but gardeners are pretty averse
to it. And if you sell your product in Washington you have to identify
what's in it. Putting some additional nitrates (blood meal, urea, ammonium
nitrate) and maybe some starter bacteria would speed things along, true. But
you have to consider your target market.

The residential gardener market is made out of a 4 groups.
1: those that don't use compost and rely on fertilizers.
2: those who lack the desire/time/knowledge to make their own compost and
buy bagged compost or topsoil
3: those who want to but who lack the space to store a compost bin
4: those who make their own compost

There are thousands of great ideas, the problem is finding the target
market, and executing the marketing and distribution of the product. That's
not easy.

Market 1 is not going to be interested in your product.
Market 2 might be, with extensive marketing
Market 3 might be, if you can convince them that storing these bags
somewhere is a good idea.
Market 4 might be, if your approach is somehow better then their method.

Once you identify your target market, figure out how to market to that
group, and distribute the product in places where the target market shops.

Good luck
Sameer

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 17:39:46 GMT, McQualude
wrote:

"Lucy & Howard Albert" said:

I came up with this idea decades ago and it uses many common
household materials. If I were to just post the "secret formula", it
moves from marketable idea to interesting idea.

"Lucy & Howard Albert" said:
The idea is to add a (secret) formula to compostable waste

Why does it have to be secret? There are thousands of successful
products that do not have 'secret' ingredients. I would say there
are very few products that depend on a 'secret' ingredient, most of
them on late night television.

Guess what... you could make your own glass cleaner at home but most
people don't.

One part alcohol four parts distilled water.. I used denatured alcohol
cuz that's what I have, but I suppose isopropyl.. not the rubbing
stuff as it is already diluted some and may have something else in it
as it has left things streaky and sticky when I tried to use it years
ago to clean off something. I'm going to call the place I got my
glasses and talk to the folks again to make sure that is what I should
be using as they were the ones who told me the 1 to 4 mix, but some of
the folks there when I got my new glasses yesterday made noises like
that could be bad, but .. they ALL agree not to use window cleaner
because the solvents take the coatings off the glasses, and one woman
said there is an abrasive in windex. I kind of wonder just how they'd
keep it from settling out if that was so without making it into a
gel...and even then, it would just "fall slower" it would seem ;-)

Glass in the windows supposedly gets thicker at the bottom after many
years as it's "flowing" very very slowly ;-)

Janice