Scrap Eater Living Composter

You will enjoy this beautiful addition to your home for many years. The Scrap Eater is an attractive garden planter, as well as an efficient composter. It uses applied experience in industrial design and solar technology to create the most effective, sturdy and compact composter on the market. Measuring about three feet high and two feet in diameter, this composter is constructed of 3/4 of a solid oak Bordeaux wine barrel. The clear dome is made of acrylic plastic, a material that resists solar degradation.

 

Using the Composter

The Scrap Eater is easy to use: just add your kitchen scraps, then periodically mix the pile with the supplied stirrer and add some dry material to the mix - some dry grass, dry leaves, or a little sawdust. The crank-style stirrer is made of solid stainless steel. It is extremely easy to use and does an excellent job of keeping the compost aerated. When the Scrap Eater fills up - in about six months for a family of four, and two years or more for a single-person household - you can remove the compost for use. The compost is a perfect plant fertilizer that can be used anywhere in your garden, including the growing area on the perimeter of your Scrap Eater.

 

How it Works

The Scrap Eater can be used to rapidly compost large batches of food scraps at one time, but is typically used by adding small amounts of scraps every few days. The ability of the composter to rapidly decompose food scraps decreases the rate at which the chamber fills up. As food scraps decompose they will decrease in volume by 20 times or more. Where does the food go? Part of the material is lost through evaporation, but most of the scraps are consumed by the hungry microbes in the composter and exhausted as carbon dioxide and water vapor. If large quantities of food are added at one time, higher composting temperatures may be attained. Temperatures as high as 150????????F may be generated with the addition of at least 1 cubic foot of the right combination of food and dry material. Conventional composters require 30 times the material to reach these high temperatures.