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October 3, 2010 By Jen 7 Comments

What’s In Your Trash? A Review

Over a year ago I posted about starting a compost pile in my back yard. I started out with several biodegradable lawn bags full of leaves and added kitchen scraps as I went along. Eventually, we made an area for the pile and put it all together. I used an old coffee can to collect the kitchen scraps and dumped it when it was full (or started stinking). I can’t say it was the best system, but it worked.

A few month down the road, I was contacted by BuyGreen.com. BuyGreen.com invited me to try out one of their products and I came across the BioBag MaxAir II Composting Buckets.  This bucket and the BioBags included, stepped up my composting efforts in the kitchen.

Kitchen food waste can build up bacterial odor quickly when collected in a solid plastic or ceramic pail. The reason is food waste creates heat and moisture that can not escape when placed in these closed containers. Many modern collection pails contain charcoal filters or other devices to help mask the odor, but do little to slow the rotting process. The Max Air buckets are ventilated on all sides, including the top and bottom, allowing food waste to breathe.

True to it’s claim, I was able to collect more scraps without stinking up the house. Additionally, it became a cleaner process since the scraps were contained in the mini trash bag. This eliminated the need to gag my way though washing out rotting food from the coffee cans.  Overall, this bucket streamlined my efforts and made it become a habit, rather then a chore. I’m glad I picked this product to check out. A little advice, the Biobags are very thin and start to biodegrade very quickly, don’t let your scraps get too heavy or wait too long, they may break through when you try to remove them.

Over a year later and I have a nice pile started. I recently dug down to the bottom and pulled out some nice dark soil to put around our apple tree.  Composting has been a success in our home. It’s a small effort anyone can do to make a difference.

Do you compost? Comment with any tips and tricks you may have.

In compliance with FTC Guildlines, please note that this is a sponsored post.  I was given these products to test and review free of charge.  However, I was not paid for the review and the opinions are my own.

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Filed Under: Green Product Reviews, Green Tips Tagged With: BioBag, Biodegradable, BuyGreen, compost pile, Composting, Eco-Office, kitchen food waste, kitchen scraps, MaxAir, starting a compost pile, waste

About Jen

Jennifer Smith provides Green Virtual Assistant Services to grow small businesses paperless and sustainable providing various e-services. Her passion is customizing StudioPress Themes for WordPress for her awesome clients. View her portfolio here.

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Comments

  1. Janice says

    October 8, 2010 at 1:19 am

    The MaxAir Kitchen Bin is a great product. I bought one after a friend suggested that they really work to reduce odour. I ended up buying one for my mom too.

  2. Eco-Office Gals says

    October 5, 2010 at 1:41 am

    It did, but I could have helped it along more. I should have turned it more, kept it more moist, etc etc. I didn’t, I just threw everything in there and let it do it’s own thing. If you helped it along you would probably get quicker results.

  3. Donna Maria Coles Johnson says

    October 5, 2010 at 12:39 am

    Thanks for sharing this, Jen. I don’t compost. (Guilt.) But I’m interested in doing so. Did it take a whole year to produce compost you could use around your tree?

  4. Eco-Office Gals says

    October 3, 2010 at 10:53 pm

    Let us know how it goes when you dive back in 🙂

  5. Eco-Office Gals says

    October 3, 2010 at 10:52 pm

    I feel ya gal. This does a better job for sure, not perfect, but you are dealing with rotting scraps so nothing can be perfect, I suppose.

  6. Kristin Fraser Cotte says

    October 3, 2010 at 10:46 pm

    I’m going to get one of these for my husband. He handles all the composting, and I was just commenting the other day that we needed a new pail for the kitchen… the one we are using is way stinky!

  7. Kayla Fioravanti says

    October 3, 2010 at 6:52 pm

    This looks like a great system. I’m not composting right now, but I have in the past. This would make it much cleaner. Thanks for the review.

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