Question by Lance: Can I make compost inside a sealed bottle?
I live in an apartment and all I have for outdoor space is a balcony. I don’t want bugs or other animals coming onto my balcony, so I’ve been trying to make compost inside a tightly sealed 2-liter bottle. It’s not decomposing very fast. Will the food scraps (which make up most of my compost–no meat, though) ever decompose if I keep the bottle sealed?
Best answer:
Answer by HyperDog
If that is a glass bottle you’re using, very carefully approach it with gloves, heavy jacket and safety glasses or a face-shield. Unscrew the top and never put it back on tightly. If the pressure inside is too great to remove the lid, I would drill a hole in the lid to release the pressure before I did anything else.
When organic matter decomposes, it can generate a lot of gas. Inside a tightly sealed container, that pressure can build up to dangerous levels. If a glass bottle explodes, it can send thousands of small shards of glass in every direction, including into you if you’re nearby.
Also, composting works best with lots of oxygen (you want aerobic bacteria, not those stinky anaerobes that you smell by the mud flats near tidal wetlands). Put a little wet dirt from the garden in there, that will seed some of the right bacteria to speed up the composting.
What do you think? Answer below!
Tags:Bottle, compost, Forums, Green, inside, Living, sealed
0 comments:
Post a Comment