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I got into awful trouble this last winter with my hotbin. My own fault really. I was adding in mainly kitchen waste and no wood chip. It was working away...

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Hi Geoff, I've two dogs and one hotbin at home and they go together quite nicely. For a while I was using recyclable poop bags and put them in the hotbin...

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Sorry to hear that your bin hasn't quite worked out the way you'd hoped. As you have found out, it takes a little while to get used to what is essentially...

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I have been operating a hotbin since June and have not found the operation of it straightforward - there is a learning curve involved. I have made mistakes...

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I started my bin back in June, so again, my first winter is looming. I did go to the bother of weighing my refuse over an 11 week period from August to...

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It's simple enough: aerobic composting requires just three things for success. The correct amounts of air, water and food. So if something goes wrong...

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Hi JohnH

Welcome.

You can put just about anything organic into a Hotbin. So compost any shrubs you have using all parts of the...

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That's a query I have wondered about too and I don't know the answer. I have quite a bit of garden/kitchen waste for my own bin and find I have to empty...

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The simple answer is you empty it when it fills up close to the top of the bin and you can't add any more to it. The longer you can leave the compost...

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Hello
1. I have been composting tea bags for years with no issues.
2. Quite ok to use newspaper. I just tear it into small pieces before adding....

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I would mix the sawdust with grass clippings if you have them. Only problem is that mix will compact down very quickly, reducing airflow, so mix through...

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If the temperature is around 50°C and you are seeing steam, then something must be happening, i.e. what you have put into your bin is happily composting...

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I once carried out a weed germination on sieved compost from a compost heap that had got to a high temperature with several turnings, and the only seedlings...