PSS: Go Compost

Making your own garden compost is a lot easier than most people realise. With simple steps, you can recycle most of the organic household and garden waste and use it to enrich the garden’s soil at the same time. However, composting at home is not a popular practice and although people have tried to do it, it is hard to make it a continuous habit and sometimes, the compost bin just sits in the house without being used. Compost is also sometimes identified with being complex and time consuming. This system proposes a compost system in an apartment complex. Using the bokashi powder instead of worms, it creates a cleaner compost without odour. It also does not have all the extra work needed for vermicomposting. The mixture does not need to be rotated and the rules to making bokashi mix is not as complicated as vermicompost.

The bins would be put inside each garbage room which residents go to on a daily basis. By putting it in a room where residents go daily, it initiates the possibility of creating a new habit. Rather than having an extra area for the compost system, which would make it as an extra task as residents would need to go to a certain area to do compost or having an extra bin in their houses where it might not be used. As the compost is managed by the apartment complex, residents need not worry about what to do with their compost when it is ready.