{"id":296,"date":"2014-03-09T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/?p=296"},"modified":"2022-10-22T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T14:20:53","slug":"the-composting-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/2014\/03\/the-composting-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"The composting routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a small green bin (yes, that&#8217;s its colour) under the sink, where all the kitchen waste goes. When full it gets decanted into one of our two black composting bins in the garden. We&#8217;ve got two, because the one we inherited when we moved into this house seemed not to do much &#8211; in fact it turned out to house an ant colony!!!<\/p>\n<p>The second one we picked up from a freecycler (in case some of you are not familiar with freecycle, it is an online group of people, divided up into regional\u00a0\u00a0groups, who are giving away and\/or looking for items that might otherwise end up in landfill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecycle.org\">www.freecycle.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Three years in this house and we have still not got back to producing the kind of excellent compost we used to produce in the old garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a small green bin (yes, that&#8217;s its colour) under the sink, where all the kitchen waste goes. When full it gets decanted into one of our two black composting bins in the garden. We&#8217;ve got two, because the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/2014\/03\/the-composting-routine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-empty-nester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/recyclingdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}