ECO BOKASHI Compost Booster & Bins

Quite a following of Bokashi Coomposters had been discovered in Hobart.

Using this quick simple low maintance system to compost down your organic kitchen scraps - all of them!

Easy! given that it’s possible to discard all your organic waste, meat, fish and dairy without creating unpleasant smells and vermin usually associated with conventional composting

Bokashi is a cost-effective and efficient way of getting rid of your kitchen/catering scraps.

Developed in Japan using EM effective micro-organisms such as yeasts, it is more akin to pickling than the rotting you get with normal composting methods.

Bokashi is totally safe– it’s not genetically modified and contains no nasty chemicals

 

The Eco Bokashi used in the organic waste recycling system is composed of crushed Australian grain (usually barley, wheat and/or rice mixture) fermented with natural beneficial microbes, minerals, salts and natural sugars.

It is also teeming with millions of beneficial microbes which go straight to work when in contact with organic material such as the food waste in the Eco Bucket, or the organic matter within the soil.

These microbes work in an oxygen free environment therefore

  • no heat
  • no foul odours produced

 

Eco Bokashi can be used for:

  • recycling food waste
  • controlling natural odours
  • conditioning soil
  • septic tanks - active promotion of waste breakdown
  • recycling animal waste • adding to potting soils, and seed raising mixes
  • accelerating breakdown in existing compost heaps and/or bins
  • adding to worm farms
  • cleaning up the doggy doo on the lawn - just a sprinkle

 

WHAT IS ECO BOKASHI FERMENTATION?

Fermentation is a process of treating organic waste which uses anaerobic (organisms that do not require oxygen for growth) microbes.

It is similar to the process of pickling. Imagine a pickled onion, it still looks like an onion, although the cellular structure has changed completely.

The advantages of this process are the quick and easy management of food waste, reducing organic food waste going to landfill.

This directly reduces further greenhouse gas emissions by retaining carbon and reintroducing it into soil - the creation of a usable nutrient rich end-product.

Directions:

  1. Eco Bokashi is used in conjunction with Eco Bucket (Refer to Eco Bucket Product Information Sheet)
  2. On average spread a layer (approximately 75-100mls or 1/3 cup) of Eco Bokashi over untreated organic waste at the end of each day.
  3. Use a masher to compact waste.
  4. Reseal Eco Bucket lid.

 

 

All food scraps including small amounts of paper can go into the bin but drain off excess water as the microbes are adverse to water and juices (please don’t empty the coffee or tea urns into the bin)

 

Add

  • fresh food and vegetables
  • prepared foods
  • onions and acidic matter like citrus
  • cooked and uncooked  meat and fish
  • cheese and eggs, coffee grinds, tea bags

 

Avoid

  • liquids such as milk, orange juice, oils
  • paper, cellophane, styrofoam and similar
  • plastic wrap, aluminium foil and waste paper
  • meat bones (crushed bones are OK)
  • shells from seafood

 

Storage:

  1. Reseal Eco Bokashi, container.
  2. Store below 30°C. 
  3. Store out of direct sunlight and it will last up to 6 months after opening.

 

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