Composting Just Cleaned Up
Date: September 4, 2008 | Category: Garden, Kitchen, The Home
Composting has multiple benefits but can be a noxious proposition, if not dealt with properly. BioBag now offers a system that will rid you of the unwanted odor of rotting waste, while preserving the fresh nutrients you need to feed your backyard compost. Instead of trying to simply conceal the smell, BioBag does the opposite, allowing the food to breath within their bags. By letting moisture and heat escape, the food stays fresh longer, eliminating foul odors. The system also features a Max Air container with open sides. It can be placed on top of a counter or under your sink. Together, the bag and container make a sweet system for anyone with a compost or who lives in a city that does the work for you. And since the bag itself is biodegradable, you don’t have to worry about emptying the contents into your compost box - just toss. And let’s face it, a melange of leftovers just stinks.
Comments
MJB
Date: September 5th, 2008 at 7:08 am
It looks cool but a couple questions: are those plastic bags? No plastic is actually biodegradable. “Biodegradable plastics” only have fewer plastic molecules. If they aren’t plastic, then what are they? I’m also wondering why I would want to keep the compost matter fresh longer. It already can take up to a year to produce compost. I wouldn’t want to wait longer? How does this product affect the time to finish compost? Would this attract bugs and mice?
Action
Date: September 9th, 2008 at 4:58 am
What a wonderful product! check out a quick guide to composting at http://www.actioncleanup.blogspot.com
GreenJoyment
Date: September 28th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
This looks pretty cool, but I’m also curious about the answers to MJB’s question up above.
Jonathan
ZZ
Date: September 29th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Those are biobags, which are corn based and do actually biodegrade eventually. Petrochemical plastic only photodegrades, meaning that it breaks down into smaller and smaller bits but never really goes away (as Bill McDonough says, “there is no away.”) If you live in an apartment or did not create enough waste to empty your compost container frequently, you would probably prefer that it didn’t stink up your kitchen, which I guess is the idea.
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