Pedal Power Mulcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COCRhSTMDh8 They should mass produce this with a larger intake and a finer final cut size. Pieces of wood this big would be considered "wood chips" and would not compost easily if at all... they'd take forever.  However, it makes a nice mulch. If you could turn contents into something more resembling sawdust, now we're talking... and you'd probably get an even harder workout too.

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Using our Insinkerator Food Waste Grinder as a “Compost Companion”, take 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-by4iKsUnIE Here's a mostly excellent video... the core idea is right on: Grind up your food waste to encourage rapid decomposition. I'm a little lost on the pro- garbage disposal talk, though. I've seen only a few write-ups on this, and they've all been from Insinkerator... conflict of interest, perhaps? Convert organic materials into compost in your own yard, or flush them down the drain to combine with nasty chemicals, heavy metals, motor oil, medication, and everything else that washes into the sewers. Even with an infrastructure set up to compost sewage sludge (which isn't always the case- it's often incinerated!), the end product contains a lot of crap. Keep your organic materials at home. Anyway, the dude explains how he puts all his organic materials in his compost bin,…

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