Bacteria need three things to survive: food, air and moister. For food brown carbon rich material and green nitrogen rich material are necessary. It is also important to put equal amounts of each in the compost bin. The stuff in the compost gets weighed down over time so you have to punch holes through it or use a “wing digger” to re-oxygenate it. The video also said that the bin may get too dry in the summer so you have to water it sometimes. My main complaint about composting is the terrible smell. Kitchen scraps are often used for compost and I absolutely hate opening the cupboard where the garbage is to be greeted with a nice rotting compost smell, which hangs in the same cupboard. It is also a pain to be running outside every five seconds to throw things in an outdoor composter, especially in a rainy place like Vancouver. If there was a way to put some sort of material (maybe baking soda?) in the lid so it didn’t smell so bad that would be really great. Then again I may just be being a princess.
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