Cat food

[AlanC]

We have had our composter for just over a week. It seems to be going well and is up to 120f. Can we add waste cat food? I can’t see any reason why not but it’s not allowed in our local authority kitchen waste collection. My experience of dogs is that they never leave anything hence this is cat-specific! Thanks.

[Claire hogan]

Found this Alan which suggest ok re cat food once the composters hot...

https://www.hotbincomposting.com/blog/how-fast-will-waste-breakdown.html

[yorkshirepudding]

Hi, our cat does sometimes leave cat food and we add it no problem. Like adding any meat, you want the temperature to be regularly around 60 degrees C or above. Too low and it won't kill the bacteria.

[ColinCompost]

Agreed, have had our bin for around 8 months and in that time have added lots of cat food, our cat seems a little fussy and changes what it likes/doesn't like almost weekly...