Compost Crock for your fruit and veggie scraps
With many local authorities now offering a recycling service along with the refuse collection, we all need to make sure we are recycling our organic waste, such as fruit and vegetable scraps as well as the other more obvious things, like glass, paper, metal…etc. The only problem is, where to keep the stuff. I used to use a little bin by the sink, but after a few days the bin would smell rancid and the whole kitchen would reek of rotting vegetables – not pleasant I can assure you. The only thing I could do was take the bin outside and keep going outside to the bin throughout the day. Again, not a pleasant prospect for someone as lazy as I am. I was torn between doing the right thing and the easier option of putting everything in the bin. Obviously I did the right thing!
Now I have found the perfect solution. A Compost Crock in the kitchen sitting prettily by the sink. It’s a ceramic pot with a lid and a carbon filter to eliminate smells. It has air holes to allow air-circulation, which prevents the waste from rotting, for a few days at least anyway. It’s actually for composting kitchen waste, but it can be used to store waste for recycling too. It’s great, but it could do with being bigger, we vegans get through heaps of fruit and veggie scraps, so I’m still making my trek to the recycling bin outside, be it two or three times a week now.
