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Bokashi: Fighting Smelly Compost and Dirty Water with Microbes

Bokashi: Fighting Smelly Compost and Dirty Water with Microbes

The more I read about bokashi the more amazing it sounds! Sometimes used in kitchen composters, this mixture of bran, molasses, and microorganisms is stellar at breaking down food scraps. The key ingredients are bokashi effective microorganisms.

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Compostable Plastic that You Can… Compost!

Compostable Plastic that You Can… Compost!

Researchers at the Imperial College of London are about to change the bioplastics game, developing a truly compostable cup.

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How Green Is that Corn Cup?

How Green Is that Corn Cup?

Where can folks take that compostable dishware? It doesn't decompose in a regular compost pile, but instead requires very high temperatures to break down, which you're really only going to get in a commercial facility. Most cities don't have easy access to municipal composting, so what does that mean for all of that "green" compostable plastic? How green is it really?

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Mio For Target - Environmentally Responsible Outdoor Living Products

Mio For Target - Environmentally Responsible Outdoor Living Products

The Salm brothers, Isaac and Jaime, of Mio Design have become strange bedfellows with none other than corporate giant Target. Mio emphasises “environmentally and socially progressive design” and hope to promote their ideas and accomplishments through Target.

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Kitchen Scraps to Garden Gold, Composters Explained

Kitchen Scraps to Garden Gold, Composters Explained

Here’s a guest post from our friend Everett Sizemore at Gaiam: Getting started with composting can be as easy as starting a kitchen scrap and yard waste pile in your backyard, or as sophisticated as using a multi-tiered system that moves compostable materials from a kitchen scrap crock to a spinning composter, then to a vermiculture [...]

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