Easy composting...in your apartment
As many advantages there are to living in Los Angeles (well, Santa Monica, technically), the possibility of having one’s own house and yard is smaller than in other places – unless you sell a few screenplays. Which we haven’t. Yet.
But until then, we grow our own vegetables and herbs on our patio and now, thanks to NatureMill, we can still compost our food waste. The new NatureMill XE Pro ensures there are sufficient temperatures to correctly compost your kitchen waste. It’s a fairly simple process: you put your food waste into the top section – meat waste (not bones, however), veggie waste, cheese rinds, even dog poo and kitty litter. That’s it: every 2 weeks, you can extract your extra-rich organic fertilizer and spread it on your plants. You may have to add some baking soda or pellets occasionally, but really, the composter will handle the rest.
It’s a small unit, so it can fit in a cupboard or closet. It will work fine in an apartment, and of course houses too. If you would rather keep it outside, it will handle cold temperatures, so you can put it on your patio or in your garage. It circulates the air through a filter, so it shouldn’t emit any odors. It does use energy, but apparently about the same as a refrigerator light bulb.
If you need be reminded of why composting is necessary: landfills give off methane, which is a significantly stronger greenhouse gas than CO2. Which means putting compostable trash into your garbage is contributing to global warming. In it’s lifetime, the XE Pro should keep 2 tons of trash from landfills.
$400
Lighter Duty XE Plus comes with only 1 year warranty and only in black, but does all the same, basically, for only $300
