compost bin

This year I have been thinking a lot about waste. Today I built a compost bin, which felt good as it not only didn't cost anything, but it used up all these mangy palettes that have been cluttering the front yard.



Tower Hamlets give us these brown waste food bins, but my main thinking around waste is that it's really important to dispose of as much of your own stuff as possible, rather than relying on council services. This is so that we're aware of how much stuff we are using - if we had to personally dispose of every single bit of non-degradeable rubbish we bought, we would definitely use less of these things.

Another aspect I find interesting, that's pretty unfamiliar to me, is that I've built something, but have no idea if it will 'work' until about a year. Will the palettes rot away? Will I get bored of it? Will I screw up and kill all the composting organisms? Who knows. In this day of fast response, throwaway stuff, it's really refreshing to have projects like this.

I found instuctions on how to build a compost bin from palettes from the Gardeners World website, good grief, never thought I'd end up there.