TW: housecat waste composting
I've posted several times in the past year as my balcony compost set-up evolves. All of your comments and suggestions have been helpful and encouraging. I live in an apartment, no yard. My balcony houses ornamental potted plants and a fruit tree. My composting methods include bokashi, Eisenia fetida composting worms, and terra cotta pots elevated on bricks.
My city doesn't have separate organic waste collection. Recently a few companies began offering pickup service for a fee.
My family's two cats (final 2 photos) use sustainable wood pellets as litter, which generates quite a volume of sawdust as it soaks up liquid and odors. I am aware of risks of fecal parasite transmission. Using the litter and solid cat waste (first put through bokashi treatment) as inputs is a calculated risk, since I am not growing herbs or vegetables in the compost. (See the projects of EPWN internationally.)
It is very important here to avoid attracting rats and cockroaches. I am trying to develop a practical system to compost household waste onsite, that costs little to no money and creates no other objections. It's my passion project to mitigate climate change! I believe a distributed system that reduces the need for trash pickup and generates valuable organic fertilizer can be attractive, especially for low-income urban residents here in a major metropolitan area with extreme income inequality. So I hope to evangelize others to adopt these habits and have the ideas spread virally.
I would even love to start a business educating people and selling this type of ventilated terra cotta pot system. I'm acquiring large numbers of lidded, food-safe, plastic, 7-liter tubs –for FREE– from a local shop to convert to simple drainless bokashi bins and vermicomposting bins. My talented teen even made a logo for them!
by gringacarioca
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