Waste Disposal

Hm.. a friend of mine composs, and she has a small postage-stamp-sized backyard. I am going to have to pump her for info.. I too have wanted to compost. We have a large area to work with; I thought of just tossing the organic matter into one can, the inorganic into another, and piling it out behind the trees..? I know that they make cylinders out of metal with a crank, and they rest sideways on a stand; you put the compost in and crank it every so often? I saw some at a nature preserve up in Buffalo (but was too busy looking at milk snakes and frogs to give t much attention, lol.)

Now that we've got the land, I'd looooooove to compost, but I've been warned not to use the snake or rat bedding b/c of risks of the salmonella and other bacterias in the rat/snake poo and raw veggies eventually growing and getting contaminated.


Right now it's going into the landfill w/my household garbage. We have limited (seasonal...during the "wet" season) yard burning...no household trash (:rolleyes: yeah, riiiiiiiiight) but they'll nail you to the wall for it too with heavy fines when they get you. The prev. ppl left different trash/ash/rubble piles, but I'm looking into getting an actual barrel for the paper stuff that doesn't recycle...then putting the bedding into it.

Wow! That is pretty stringent for burning rules; but we are off the road more. We burn everything; couches, a boat, a small garage that we tore down.. whole trees cut-up.. I like to get a nice hot fire going and burn our garbage. I am usually just too lazy to tote it all the way up the driveway via Atv, because it always slips off and I have to stop and get it and usually there is garbage strewn all over the driveway by then..
I am just going to keep tossing mine out with the garbage if it is a wet week and we don't burn it.