Still haven’t emptied it!

Need more time! I'm anticipating seeing a lot of plastic remnants from plastic-lined paper products and perhaps unfinished "compostable" plastics. It's incredible how much material I've dumped into this thing over the last two years and it's still not only stayed the same size, but actually shrunk several inches!

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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.

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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...

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