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

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Have you considered a Mooncup or the various other little rubber collectors you can insert to collect menstrual blood.. they seem to get rave reviews, and you can just pour the collected fluid down the loo or sink, or some people feed it to houseplants.

I like the idea of a wormery as a composting device but I think I'm a bit squicked at the prospect of using it to decompose sanitary protection, personally.

[muninnhuginn]

I've read about--and indeed thought hard about--the mooncup and I've not yet been convinced. Partly it's the old dog (bitch?) not wanting to learn new tricks and also some more practical considerations.

I, too, like the idea of a wormery, regardless of the prospect of using it for disposing of sanitary protection.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Various people on my flist wax lyrical about them from time to time so they seem a good idea but I'm not sure I have quite that much co-ordination these days! :)