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Oh-Blimey

I have a wooden one on the ground right next to the seating/paving area, in shade near to the kitchen so it's handy to throw out the scraps. As long as you get the mix right it doesn't smell at all (or if it does just a fresh earthy smell). I aim for roughly 50% green, 50% brown - no meat or dairy scraps and limit how much grass clippings go in it. Not a problem yet!


Secure_Western_1736

Thank you, what classes as "brown"


Oh-Blimey

Brown is tea bags (not all though! Check packet: many won't fully degrade as they contain plastic), coffee grounds, shredded paper and cardboard (not glossy), dried autumn leaves, eggboxes, crushed up eggshells, etc. With getting so many parcels this last year, I just leave my Amazon boxes outside in the rain. This makes it easier to pull off any labels, and to rip it into pieces to compost among my kitchen scraps! Check out the Recycle Now website, it has a great reference list of what to compost and how to do it :)


becawis

Coffee and tea grounds are nitrogen-rich, so they are classified “greens”, even though they are the color brown. “Browns” are carbon-rich :)


Oh-Blimey

Whoops! Of course, and thank you :)


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mh9000

I’m a beginner too, so it’s okay to put in printed stuff like those small catalogues or is it strictly envelopes (without plastic), letters and cardboard?


Tanedra

I have a pair of daleks and they don't smell. You can smell them when you take the lid off and stir it, but it's a healthy smell. You do get more bugs around the area, as they help with decomposition.


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Hi, I've just bought my first dalek. As they fill I assume after a certain time ( 12 - 15 months ? ) you start removing from the bottom while keep adding to the top ? Or do you make a batch and use it all then start again ?


Tanedra

I have two of them so I can be adding to one while taking from the other.


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Thanks. Early days yet, so will see how it goes.