Does an apartment composter take up space?

No. The kitchen bucket (15 to 20 liters) is as big as a pastry robot and treats about 3 kg of waste or consumption of a family of 4 pers./week   (Ecovi ® or Urban Composer ... from 65 €). You can also make your own kitchen compost , with a pot of unused flower, pierced, and covered with a saucer.

An apartment composter with verses (beurk!)?

It depends. Yes, when it comes to a vermicomposter and not for a kitchen composter that relies on microorganisms (lactic bacteria, yeasts ... invisible to the naked eye) to spray or sprinkle. One buys then a compost activator that puts regularly in its composter.

What is he throwing in his kitchen composter?

Almost everything that's eaten . Whether they are earthworms or bacteria, the two boulottent:
- Vegetable peels (organic, to limit pesticides) and not rotten, otherwise it is guaranteed gnats. And after they have carved.
- tea bag (without staples),
- coffee grounds ,
- egg shells (crushed),
- pasta, rice ... it's all good.

What do you avoid throwing into kitchen compost?

One does not throw to the compost of apartment:
- Citrus fruit (too acid),
- products of animal origin (stinks),
- onions and avocado skin (slow to bio-degrade)
- the garlic (the latter is vermifuge then if we have a wormworm, they are torpedo!).

A compost of apartment, it emits an odor?

Closed, the lid is very waterproof. Open, the smell that emanates is no more unpleasant than a conventional garbage , provided you do not put it behind the window ... in full sun (25 ° max).

Appraisal: in one week the fermentation juice is used to water the plants (1/4 liquid 2/4 water) and one month we have a compost to mix with the soil of the plants .