Really Fat Babies: Not what my husband thinks it is

11 April 2009

Not what my husband thinks it is

As much as I love my kitchen waste collection bin, it just can't beat what Daily Dum p came up with.

Daily Dump is a group based in India with the goals of helping homeowners handle their organic waste in an earth-friendly way.

Daily Dump sells gorgeous pottery composters, some of which are pictured here, and they also offer services to help homeowners who are new to composting. Services include set-up, demonstration, pot painting, monthly or weekly maintenance including sieving of finished compost, and crisis visits.

Daily Dump will also buy back any pottery composter, if a homeowner decides to stop using it, and will also buy excess compost, if a homeowner doesn't need it all.

I'm flabbergasted. And excited. And disappointed these composters are

only sold in India.

How is it in that in the US, indoor composters look like this:

And in India, they look like this:

(people not included)

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Glossary

Vermicompost = A mixture of vermicast, pastially decomposed organic waste, and bedding. It may also contain worm cocoons, other insects, and various other organisms.
Vermicast = worm manure (undigested material, soil and bacteria deposited through a worm's anus). Don't get grossed out -- if you dig in the dirt outside, you probably touch this stuff all the time.
Bin composting = dumping material into a structure and either leaving it be (cold composting) or actively aerating, dampening and layering to build internal heat (hot composting).
Tumbler composting = using a barrel mounted on a stand to make turning easier, usually used with quick batch composting, rather than continuous bin composting.
Green waste = material that provides nitrogen, such as grass clippings, shrimp heads, wheat bran, coffee grounds, raw potato skins, apple cores -- in other words, material that tends to be "green, succulent, gooey and dense," to quote Rodale's excellent book on composting.
Brown waste = material that provides carbon, usually stuff that's generally brown or yellow, dry, coarse and bulky, like wood chips, shredded paper, straw and sawdust.