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What goes on inside daleks?
In suburban and rural areas of sunny .fr, rubbish disposal organisations
give away or heavily subsidise compost bins. This is a matter of pure economics, but I'd like to know in quantitative terms what happens to the waste. Everyone knows that it takes a lot of green stuff to make a little bit of compost; if you don't have much garden waste, the bin takes years to fill up. Bins used to have open tops, but now they all have lids. Ours are at the bottom of the garden, which backs onto a wood. We alternate houshold and garden waste, including some twiggy stuff. If you keep the lid down, there are millions of irritating fruit flies that never seem to come out. I also find large numbers of woodlice, and the occasional four-legged scavenger or resident. I'd like to know what is the lifecycle of the insects; do any get eaten by birds or voles, or do they just recycle themselves in the bin as organic waste. A more global question is the proportion of waste that ends up as methane and carbon dioxide. Perhaps the ventilation holes in current designs are a bit too small, though enlarging them would lead to more loss of water. Does anyone know of a scientific study that's relevant to the usual situation where you add a small amount of stuff regularly over a long-ish period? |
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What goes on inside daleks?
Daddy Tadpole writes
In suburban and rural areas of sunny .fr, rubbish disposal organisations give away or heavily subsidise compost bins. This is a matter of pure economics, but I'd like to know in quantitative terms what happens to the waste. Everyone knows that it takes a lot of green stuff to make a little bit of compost; if you don't have much garden waste, the bin takes years to fill up. You can add a fair bit of cardboard and paper - most people have a lot of that! Bins used to have open tops, but now they all have lids. Ours are at the bottom of the garden, which backs onto a wood. We alternate houshold and garden waste, including some twiggy stuff. If you keep the lid down, there are millions of irritating fruit flies that never seem to come out. I also find large numbers of woodlice, That usually means the bin is too dry. -- Kay |
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