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Cured Compost Bin Nearly Ready to Empty!

It's been about a year since I stopped adding to this compost bin and started a new one. It'll be interesting to see what all is in here besides finished compost. I know I added plenty of paper products that most likely had a plastic liner sandwiched in between layers. There's also plenty of bags of leaf cleanup dumped in here, so there's most likely some pieces of litter. This doesn't bother me. The bottom line is I avoided the landfill with a massive portion of organic materials and now I will have some great compost, too.

Sawdust Dumpstering

About once every six months, I make a trip out to the wood shop dumpster to get sawdust for my compost toilet system. I checked with the shop in advance to see that they don't use any treated wood and asked permission to stop by and fill up on sawdust. Of course it benefits them since I'm lightening their waste load and I get free material to process my cat litter and compost toilet. Videos coming soon...

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.