- Buy a bin from your local hardware shop, we suggest a 75 litre Willow Dome bin with lid.
- Remove the lid from the bin and place bin upside down.
- Cut hole in bottom of bin, slightly less than the whole bottom area, but enough so that you can tip your compost into the bin. You can use a small saw or sharp cutting tool, we used our secateurs to “stab” a hole the circumference of the bottom of the bin.
- Dig a small hole in the ground a round 15cm deep and then place the compost bin upside down in the hole (so the cut hole is in the facing upward).
- Add a little soil inside the bin and around the outside to secure the bin in the ground.
- Put all food scraps inside the bin, including tissues and paper towel. Your bin should get all kinds of creepy crawlies inside but this helps the scraps to ‘break down”! Keep the lid firmly on at all times unless you are putting scraps in. Keep a Tupperware container on your kitchen bench and add to it every day with your scraps.
- Then once a day go out to your bin and add scraps.
- Put the lid on top of the compost bin and ‘Voila’—you are ready to go!
Lachlan & Lisa have 2 of these bins in their backyard and have reduced their normal waste to almost nothing. They recycle as much as they can and they now only put our normal bin out once per month (family of 4)! Have fun!
