Hot Bin Composters

Hot bin - to compost ALL food waste

Some volunteers from Shropshire Master Composters have helped test an innovative new compost bin - The Hot Bin - which allows you to compost all types of food waste at home (including cooked food and even meat products which you would traditionally avoid home composting).  Their feedback was that this unique product was very effective in getting up to very high temperatures (even in the height of the recent cold winter) and processing all types of food waste quickly and cleanly.

Why do we need the hot bin?

Surely food waste rots so we can just add it to the compost heap and it breaks down?   Well to a degree this is true, but the problem is that if you dont do it correctly it may attract unwanted pests like rats and flies.  This means even if you home compost you will still have alot of food waste going in your bin to landfill. 



This is what why the HOTBIN was invented: ‘to create a compost bin and method that enables millions of existing home composters to compost ALL food waste'.   Unlike standard home composting bins which rarely get hotter than about 40 degrees Celcius, the hot bin is insulated and gets really hot - up to 70 degrees when its really fired up.  This is important if you are going to be composting kitchen waste because it helps to sanitize the waste as well.  Another benefit is that it produces the compost much quicker than normal home composting, so its good if you're impatient too! 

The HOTBIN was specifically designed to achieve HOT composting to allow ALL food waste to be composted, safely and cleanly at home.  

The hot bin is now available via www.shropshire.getcomposting.com