August 24th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)
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Name: Thomas Korthuis
Email: [email protected]
Site: http://www.move2create.com
About: I was born in The Netherlands in 1982 and now reside in Orlando, FL, USA. I do web, graphics and audio/video design.
I believe that you can bring change through little and big steps. Big steps for those that like change, little steps for those that don't.
Ecotipsforlife.com is not only meant to become a useful reference but also catalogs my own personal journey toward becoming more environ-mind(ed)See Authors Posts (62)
Budget: $20-$100
Time required: Completely up to you
Impact potential: Landfill reduction, great diy compost and all benefits thereof.
Tip: Today I ordered a worm composter from wormwranglers.com (this one). I am very curious to see how this will go and will post foto’s on twitter of the composter and the result.
The main reason I went for buying a complete unit instead of diy is time. Since this unit was made from recycled materials from a company that looked very much like they know what they are talking about I decided to go that route.
There are however some great websites about diy word composting projects. Checkout these resources:
Checkout any of the sites above fro great diy options and info regarding worm composting.
I’ll post regular foto’s on twitter and updates.
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June 18th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)closeAuthor: Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)
Name: Thomas Korthuis
Email: [email protected]
Site: http://www.move2create.com
About: I was born in The Netherlands in 1982 and now reside in Orlando, FL, USA. I do web, graphics and audio/video design.
I believe that you can bring change through little and big steps. Big steps for those that like change, little steps for those that don't.
Ecotipsforlife.com is not only meant to become a useful reference but also catalogs my own personal journey toward becoming more environ-mind(ed)See Authors Posts (62)
Budget: around $30
Time required: 1-3 hours
Estimated impact: Rich fertile compost for your garden, porch or patio, can’t beat that…
Tip: For some time we have had a very small temporary compost bin made from an old 10 gallon trash can. As you can image this filled up within a very short period of time. Outside being small it also did not really provide a good environment to compost, so I found myself scouring sites looking at compost tumblers mainly because a compost pile would not work in our yard.
After seeing many types ranging from $150 to upwards opf $300 I decided to look for “diy compost tumbler” and “diy compost bin” and came across allot of posts of people making composters from cheap materials and two specific site caught my attention: http://www.instructables.com/id/Compost-Tumbler/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn_5HRgiftg. One is a composter made from an old barrel the other how to make a rain barrel from an old cheap trash can.
So I decided to combine them and create a compost tumbler from a cheap $13 trash can, some pvc piping and a wood frame to hold the compost tumbler. I’ll post the pictures of the result on Twitter.
It works great for our needs and it only costs about $30 to make. Also I found this site later on of someone doing the same thing only without a frame. He just mixes the compost by rolling the trash can over the yard.
So if you would like to start composting, I suggest you google things like “diy compost tumbler” and “diy compost bin” or checkout any of the links above and start your own compost project. Happy composting.
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