Make The Compost

Data last Hygiene Office of Jakarta shows the amount of waste Jakarta until the current ± 27,966 M ³ per day. Composition, 65 percent of the organic waste and 35 percent of the waste nonorganik. So, if we want to count, residents of Jakarta can build a 1 Borobudur temple every 2 days from the piles of garbage. Wow!! This is only Jakarta, not other cities.

One way to reduce our solid waste is to compost organic waste to our home.

How:

Provide vessel diameter of 10 cm (that is not used again), given a hole to the bottom line, brown liquid (leachate) produce results. Give sand into the container as basically.

Then the remaining organic waste such as vegetables, fruits, food, etc. stacked on top of the sand.

On the third day after a sour smell, the remaining vegetables and food appealing lime (dolomide) add nutrients to the results of compost. give adequate water.

Then add the loose soil so that adequate odor can be restrained. For the next layer can start again with a little water to give, given the sand, the remaining vegetables / food, loose soil.

Making compost is done flaky. For vessel diameter of 10 cm mixture does not need to be stirred, but for a container the size of a larger mixture stirred.

The time required to become compost around one and a half months. Signs the produce compost finished a mixture of black and does not smell.

Compost can be used as fertilizer plants, planting media in the home or if sold could be a source of additional revenue.