What is a Kitchen Compost Bin?
A kitchen compost bin or kitchen composter is a container which you use to ferment your kitchen scraps into garden compost indoors. Any good kitchen composter will have a tap to drain off excess liquid (which makes a fantastic plant feed). They will come with some form of activator or starter. Most often rice husks or similar waste vegetable matter impregnated with yeasts to get your kitchen scraps fermenting quickly. The idea is you fill your kitchen compost bin for a fortnight then leave it sealed for a fortnight so food is fermented and rendered safe to put out into the garden. These are a particularly good way of dealing with food scraps that could attract vermin if put outside in a conventional garden compost bin. So meat and dairy products are composted with one of these Bokashi kitchen compost bins. On a larger scale they are even used in schools and public buildings to reduce food waste being sent to landfill.
