Ask Umbra on Composting Endometria

[muninnhuginn]

Interesting thoughts about composting biodegradable sanitary protection. Is it worth investing in a wormery for this, I wonder. Most of our other compostable waste goes into our green bin since there's currently no gardening activity to use compost on.

There are, I suppose, two considerations:

• Effort: am I (and it will be me!) willing to tend to the worms instead of just putting all the compostable waste in the convenient green bin?
• Cost: there's an initial investment of c. £80 (is that about right? it's a figure I remember from somewhere, but I know there are folk out there who'll know) for perhaps ten years or so (based on my age and family history) when there's the extra feminine waste in addition to the potato peelings et al.

Actually, an average fixed cost of £8 seems great So it'd be effort that really swings it.

Comments

[armb.livejournal.com]

Nappies contents are different and aren't "basically meat, right?" - the Umbra column links to an earlier one on composting toilets (http://grist.org/advice/ask/2005/11/21/toilets/index.html). I agree with you about the lag - I know some people find that a problem for kitchen waste.
(In theory here in East Cambs where we don't have green bins we can put kitchen waste wrapped in newpaper in the fortnightly brown paper bags, but personally we don't. Vegetable waste goes on the compost heap (at least mostly), meat goes in black bin sacks.)