What is the best way to compost in limited space?

Question

I live in an apartment and I have a small balcony/porch, in Florida. Two vegetarians living together, we make alot of organic waste.

Answer 1

You could do it with worm bins.  As a vegetarian, you are producing exactly the kind of waste worms love.  Pretty easy to do worm bins too.  I know of one guy doing it in an apartment in New York.

You may even be able to make a little spare cash, selling the wonderful organic matterial to gardners.

Just google worm bins, there's tons of information on it.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 2

In a limited space of course you will be limited on the amount you can compost.  But really compost is a way of recycling WASTE.  

So I would ask first do you maximize Reduce and Reuse before Recycling?  

Then I would ask how your local waste treatment plant works.  Some cook the organic sludge ... to produce methane to ... cook the organic sludge *lol* and to sterilize it.  Then they sell the sterilized sludge product to spray on farmers' fields.  Flushing it all may actually be a form of composting.

If neither of those ideas meets your requirements, then use the link to find the composter which best suits your needs.

I live outside Toronto and here they have a recycling pick up specifically for compostibles so it isn't an issue for me, luckily.

Answer 3

When I do ecology projects with my students, we use a counter top compost system made from a recycled plastic soda pop bottle.  Here's the link with instructions for making your own ~ you may want to adapt the directions and use a gallon milk/water jug instead if you are producing that much waste.

Answer 4

Well it would be very hard to do it on a porch/balcony, it may not even be posible.

Answer 5

i buy compost from the local and give compostable scraps to my mother who has a bin on her property.

when it produces, she shares.

it's a sloppy business when yoú're reduced to small buckets.

Answer 6

Worms are the way to go, but you don't even need a bin.  Just use black plastic garbage bags.  You start out with a bag full of garbage and end up a few months later with a small amount of dirt in the bottom of the bag.