Eco Composter

What is an eco composter and how can it save you money? Beyond making your own compost out of all sorts of waste products, eco composters are a great way to be green and share with your neighbors and friends another environmentally friendly tip!

Available at Eco-Outfitter

An eco composter uses a tumbler mechanism that breaks down material into a rich black soil. Because fresh ingredients like lawn, garden, and kitchen scraps need heat, moisture, and oxygen, eco composters use an innovative airflow system providing a constant flow of oxygen. Along with the airflow system, since the eco-composter is a sphere, it’s easy to roll around your garden and double the airflow.

Eco-Outfitter is one supplier of this type of composter. Unlike composting bins, that have a twenty-five or fifty gallon capacities, these spherical composters have an amazing seventy-one gallon capacity.

Made of recycled materials, the all weather composter is fun to use and easy to assemble. Some models come with a base stand or a leg stand. These eco-friendly composters are great to share with your neighbors. Have everyone donate waste and scrap and share in the excitement of making your own compost in just four to six weeks. Even youth groups and schools have jumped on board the composting wagon and use these composters to make the richest compost and then sell it to fund trips and other activities.

Before you buy, shop around on the Internet and at garden centers. Often, you can find these on sale or at a discounted price at larger garden centers. Plan to spend between $150 and $200. Some of the great features and benefits of the eco composter are:

• Patented 2-1-in-lid system that allows you to choose a small or large opening.
• Reduces yard waste by up to fifty percent.
• Turns yard clippings, garden, and kitchen vegetable waste into rich soil.
• This type of compost adds needed nutrients to your garden and reduces weeds.
• Has a seventy-one gallon capacity
• Can be assembled with household tools.
• Weighs in at 36.75 pounds and is 32 inches in diameter.

The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA offers great tips on making your own compost. Beyond the educational fun you can have with your kids and sharing compost with neighbors, here are some other benefits:

1. Enriched Soil – Soil needs to be regenerated. Composting helps produce microorganisms breaking them into organic matter called humus, a material rich in nutrients. Humus helps keep soil moist, can stop plant disease and reduce or eliminate pests. This natural process is better than pesticides that can damage your plants and the natural environment.
2. Soil Clean Up – Believe it or not, like paint, some soil contains volatile organic compounds or VOCs. Compost can help stop the contamination process and clean up the soil.
3. Pollution Fighter – Instead of waste material being shipped off to landfills, using them to make compost turns composting into a pollution fighter. It can also help prevent erosion on creeks, lakes, and rivers. During storm water runoff, compost stops pollutants from forming.
4. Economics – Beyond being a great green idea, making your own compost with an eco composter reduces water, fertilizer, and pesticide use, saving money. It also saves money at the landfill. The more compost produced, the lower the cost to clean up contamination present in landfills.
5. Educate - Making compost and teaching others, including children, is an educational experience. When just one person gets the green message through composting, that's a step in the right direction!

The price of an eco-composter may seem high, but worth its weight in gold in the long run. If you can’t afford your own, why not contact neighbors and share the expense? You’ll all reap the rewards of making your own compost and rejuvenating your soil!

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