{"id":11875,"date":"2020-06-10T10:37:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T08:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/?p=11875"},"modified":"2020-07-26T19:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T17:03:45","slug":"what-is-hotbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/en\/what-is-hotbin\/","title":{"rendered":"What is HOTBIN?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11875\" class=\"elementor elementor-11875\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-156b25e3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"156b25e3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6e543e80\" data-id=\"6e543e80\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-193bed61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"193bed61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5d7mH7-T-7M\">Watch this video<\/a> <\/span>for an introduction to HOTBIN.<\/p><p>We brought our HOTBIN, Gracie, into the garden in the dead of winter. No one believed it a good time to start hot composting with freezing temperatures outside.\u00a0We started anyway. We wouldn\u2019t know until we tried.<\/p><p>Every week we have fed Gracie with our kitchen waste (~40L) \u2013 rain or snow.\u00a0 It is now 4 months since we started and we have recycled over 600L of kitchen and garden waste into compost which will nourish our plants and flowers.\u00a0<\/p><h3><strong>How do I know when compost is Ready?<\/strong><\/h3><p>Each layer of bio waste that goes into HOTBIN will take on average 30-days to become mulch and 90-days for compost.\u00a0 Every few weeks we open the flap at the bottom to check out what is ready (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wINHrajJ9oY\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">view the video<\/span> <\/a>on how to remove the hatch).\u00a0 Because the waste gets condensed over time,\u00a0 there is no risk of it spilling out when we open the flap.<\/p><p>HOTBIN compost is ready when most of the original materials are no longer recognizable (some tough woody materials may still be present \u2013 these may be sifted out from the compost and put back in the HOTBIN for further decomposition). HOTBIN finished compost is ready when:<\/p><ul><li>It smells earthy (not putrid or drain like)<\/li><li>It is fine particles with no sign of original waste or big bits<\/li><li>It is a dark brown material<\/li><li>It is very wet and sticky &#8211; so much so it appears &#8216;large and lumpy&#8217;<\/li><\/ul><p>On a recent sunny day, \u00a03 months after we started composting, we opened the flap and pulled out the compost from the very bottom that looked great and smelled earthy. We don\u2019t use mulch so we simply closed the flap and let HOTBIN go on making more compost for next time. \u00a0After we close the flap, the mulch and waste above it will simply drop down and fill the empty space left by what we pull out.\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Remember:<\/strong>\u00a0 Never push the waste down.\u00a0 This would compress everything and could disturb the airflow inside HOTBIN.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is HOTBIN? let us introduce you to our HOTBIN, Gracie, in a video and share our composting experience in the first 4 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-composting-questions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11875"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13756,"href":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions\/13756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}