Drago
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Our council won't take my garden waste bin because it's "too heavy" for their little machine, but they can't give me a kilogram figure as to what would be an acceptable max weight. Duh.
I’d compost the sawdust, Fossy. If you don’t have a big compost heap and have a compostable waste bin, read the rules carefully: animal waste is often banned - and in some places the collectors do check and reject stuff that they think is contaminated. Cat pee is quite... well, detectable.
This may be justified - industrial-scale composting needs quick decomposition to keep the bulk of stuff being handled to reasonable proportions, and it can be slowed by some substances, which, for all I know, may include cat pee. Your little contribution would probably make no differences, but there are lots of cats and if everyone does it....
I don't know if you can, but with 4 cats fitting a cat flap and teaching them to do their business outside would save you disposing of cat litter.I don't think my wife would be too happy using the compost bin, plus it would be rather full. More landfill then !![]()
My cat has a flap,
We live on a farm. So the rabbits are bedded down on straw. When we clean them out all the stuff goes into the muck spreader. You can compost straw, but it takes quite a long time to rot.Hello all,
Now, I'd like to do something with the waste sawdust, hay, straw, poo that doesn't involve lobbing it in the non-recycling waste. Does anybody on here compost the stuff, or similar?
Thanks!![]()
I don't know if you can, but with 4 cats fitting a cat flap and teaching them to do their business outside would save you disposing of cat litter.
My cat has a flap, but refused to use the outdoors until I changed his covered box that was getting a bit tatty with another, identical one.
He did not like the new one for some reason (filled with the usual litter btw), so he goes out now.
I still keep the box just in case, because I lock him in at night (a mouse at 3am disrupts my sleep) but he's not used it for months.
Get a large Chimnea, mixed with logs it will burn (slowly)