The Bokashi Bin System
You can transform ALL food waste (including cooked food, meat, fish and cheese) into a super healthy
nutrient rich, compost with the help of this small and compact system in your kitchen - no smells, no
flies! Once treated in the Bokashi Bin, this material can safely be turned into compost.
What is the Bokashi Bin System?
It is one of the most effective methods of recycling kitchen organic waste. It is carried out in an air tight
container using Bokashi as a compost activator.
Bokashi is a Japanese term meaning “Fermented Organic Matter”. It is bran-based material that has been
inoculated with beneficial micro-organisms (a mix of friendly bacteria, yeasts and fungi) which help to
speed up the composting process, suppress pathogens as well as preventing putrefaction and foul smells.
The fermentation process does not produce adverse smells so you can keep the bucket under the sink or
in the home.
Benefits:
No smells because friendly safe bacteria are used.
No fruit flies because the process does not require air.
Small & compact for the kitchen.
Cooked and uncooked food including meat, fish, fruit and vegetables may be safely composted in
a home compost bin when processed with the Bokashi Bin system.
Will rebuild the soil in your garden and will decontaminate soil from harmful pathogens and pollutants.
Watch your garden bloom with new life if you bury your fermented food waste directly under the
soil or make into compost in a compost bin.
Be part of an organic solution by directing food waste away from the landfill
Items that
CAN
and
CANNOT
be put into the Bokashi Bin
Instructions for Use
Before use fit the tap to the Bokashi Bin.
1. Simply put your cooked
and uncooked food scraps
into the Bokashi Bin.
2. Sprinkle a handful of
Bokashi on top of the food
waste each time you put
scraps into the bucket, ideally
all of the food scraps should
be covered with Bokashi bran.
3. Press the material down using the trowel provided to
extract the air from the organic matter.
4. Keep the lid shut at all times. This is an anaerobic
composting system - the less air the better.
5. Drain any excess liquid produced using the tap at
the base of the composter as often as possible. This
allows the material to decompose at a quicker rate
(Instructions for what to do with the liquid are overleaf).
When the bucket is full, close the lid tightly and leave for around two weeks - this
allows the fermentation process to commence. Any excess liquid should be
drained off during the fermentation process.
In the meantime start filling your second bucket. When the second bucket
is full, empty the first bucket. Always rinse the bucket thoroughly
before filling again.
The resulting material can be added to a home composter. For best
results keep this material covered with soil and other compostable
material. Alternatively dig into a trench in the garden and cover over.
Double Kit includes:
2 x Bokashi Bin buckets with taps, lids, handles
and inner drain trays, 2 x trowel and
2 x scoop. 1kg of Bokashi Bran
(2 months supply)
YES
NO
Food Scraps & Leftovers
- Fruit & Veg
- Dairy Products
- Meat & Bones
- Fish
Prepared Foods
- Pizza, Burgers, Snacks
- Baked foods, cakes
Other Organic Material
- Spent flowers
- Coffee Grounds
Bottles & Cans
- Plastic
- Glass
- Aluminium
Packaging
- Metal
(Foil, Staples)
- Plastics
Other
- Tobacco Ash
- Tea Bags
- Pet Waste
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