I was walking around the other day and found these massive 5′ x 5′ x 5′ compost bins.
I hope they don’t always look this inactive! There’s a lot of potential here.
The “death” of a compost bin is when branches are tossed in… while they are organic and will break down, they will take forever to do so in that form and just take up space.
To the left of these bins is a nice pile of wood chips, and it was good to see that the wood chips were not present in the bins… sawdust yes, wood shavings not really, wood chips no way.
If the nature area wanted to (and maybe they do on a scheduled basis), there was plenty of material in the immediate vicinity of which to get both bins full of ready-to-compost material.
I’ll definitely be checking this out over time to see how it’s getting used. I’m guessing the trickier component is finding the right green materials…definitely the opposite of my situation!