What do you do with your feeder waste?

Even with my small breeding project there is a lot of waste that is produced every week. I've been taking it to a dumpster outside my house, but I think there would be a better way. I would like to be able to burn it but I'm not sure that I can seeing how I live in town. I also don't have a garden or the room to just compost it. What does everybody else do?

Feeder waste goes out with the normal trash here... I generally have one 30-gallon trash bag full every week from my colonies.

I double bag it and throw it with the regular trash.

Same unfortunately. I don't like throwing things away, I would rather make use of it such as compost.

Goes out with regular trash. Although I do have the room and do compost other manures, rat bedding won't be one of them.

I live on 4 acres so it's not an issue. It makes great compost too.

I have a large field behind my house. All kinds of critters there. I just throw the mouse over my fence, something will eat it that night or the next.

With the high ammonia content is it really a good compost?

Im jut imagining the grass in the middle of summer when a dog has pee'd in a few spots an the grass dies because of it..

This is pure speculation tho so feel free to correct me

in Germany we have a 3-bin system, one for paper, one for organic waste, one for the rest.

so here stuff like this obviously goes into the organic waste bin, it will either be used for largescale commercial production of compost, or (nowadays more likely) it will get fermented to produce organic gas for a powerstation, then get sterilized, and then distributed to farmers and used as fertilizer.

its unfortunate when the only option you have is to put it into the regular trash, because it needlessly increases the overall volume of trash and still contains a lot of energy. Maybe you can find a recycling company or gardening company or organic gas powerstation that will take it in for free.

I have a huge pile composting. It makes "okay" mulch to cover areas if you want, it'll break down eventually.

It gives "fluff" to dirt i you turn it in good. If you have clay heavy soil it'll enrich it. The ammonia isn't a real issue so far in my experience. Once it's set in a pile the ammonia seems to break down. The waste DOES smell though, but considering that a compost pile never smells nice while composting, it's not an issue. I would burn it, but usually it's a little too damp to burn well overall.

I clean pretty regularly so it doesn't get too soaked in pee. I wish I could burn it cause I would use the ash as furtilizer. I'll never have a big enough garden for that much pine unless it was reduced to ash. Are soiled pine shavings considered trash? Cause I think I just can't burn trash like papers and plastics. Idk.

I do one of three things:
1) Throw it in the regular trash.
2) Add it to the compost bin (don't have an honest-to-goodness compost pile yet)
3) use it as "mulch" on some of the slopes in my yard.

Which I do just depends on where the need is at that time.

Sorry to resurrect a 9-month-old thread, but...

I'm looking into composting my rodent bedding after it's used. I don't have all the answers yet, but it APPEARS from my initial Google search that the ammonia from the rats is offset by the acidity of the pine shavings/pellets.

My question is, if you are using paper as a substrate for your snakes, can that be added to your compost after use, too?

I'm not a big 'environmentalist' or anything, so I don't have a moral objection to just throwing it away, but I am a big fan of using everything completely up. I pay for my rat bedding, and if it can have a second life, well, I want to make good use of my resources.

Thoughts?

I throw all mine on my big compost pile. Does just fine.
I don't add snake bedding to the pile, though. That goes out with regular trash. I don't add carnivore poop to my pile, wouldn't want that around my garden.