Americans throw away 4.6 pounds of trash per day, equivalent to 251 million tons of trash each year for the entire population. However, the real shocker is that the two largest contributors to landfills are food and paper.
Home composting is a key component of reducing your contribution to landfills. Landfills are the largest human-related source of methane in the U.S., according to the EPA. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is estimated to be 21 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping the warming effects of the sun.
The NatureMill is a sweet little home electrical composting system that will appeal to urbanites as it fits in any standard kitchen cabinet and produces fresh compost in about 2 weeks – with zero effort and mess.
The 20 litre bin, weights 8kgs (17lbs) and uses electricity to compost the your kitchen waste. The composter can process 120 lbs of food waste in a month, or 5 lbs a day, and the food waste is mixed automatically every four hours. The NatureMill unit uses an estimated 5kwh of energy each month.
The downside of the NatureMill is that more electricity is needed to power the composter versus a traditional outdoor composting unit that uses no electricity, but that takes longer and requires more physical work.
NatureMill explains that the indoor composting unit has the ability to divert two tons of food waste from the landfill over its lifetime and the unit costs less in electricity than a garbage truck would burn to haul the same amount of waste to the dump.
Visit: http://www.naturemill.com/
Via: EarthFirst.com
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