what is the best way to composting alot of rabbit cage stuff

My rabbit uses alot of hay, sawdust and newspaper daily and my compost bin is full!!!!!! what is the best way to speed up the composting process in my bin si i cna fit more into it??????

I cannot put it my normal bin as they do not allow it.
At the moment i have got quite a few carrier bags with it all in and its driving me mad!!!
Can you burn it and use the ashes in the compost????

please help:cnfs:

 

Buy a second bin?

 

Unfortunately, compost bins do not work very fast in the winter. At least, I've never been able to get mine to digest very quickly from December to, say, April. During the summer, I can hardly keep up with it.

If you're able to burn your rabbit waste, you can either spread the ashes straight on the garden or mix small amounts in with your compost.

A second bin is not a bad idea.....

 

thankyou. I would love a 2nd bin but space dictates otherwise:(

 

Suggestions..

A "burn up" after midnight?

Get rid of the rabbit?

Digressing...

My daughter kept rabbits and guinea pigs, I built her a shed with cages down each side for them. She was very good at looking after them. She had them since she was seven and bought her last one when she was fourteen. she got very upset when any of them died and we had little grave plots all over the garden for a while.

By the time she left home at eighteen to train as a nurse at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, they'd all expired through old age..'cept the last. She never came home to live permanently as after she qualified, she moved out of the nurses home into a flat of her own.
We had to care for the rabbit for a further eight years! When it died my wife dreaded telling our daughter.
Her response was "Shame!" and then moved on to another subject. At GOS the survival rate of the kids is only 50%, so I guess she had a different perspective by then.

Over the years, she and I had to take one or two to the vet for treatment on occasions.
On our return, I'd say to her mother, (pretending I didn't know my daughter was in ear-shot);
"Do you know how much that cost me at the vet? It'd be cheaper to get a new rabbit!"
This was the signal for cushions to be thrown at me, by the pair of them.

 

What atlernative is there to sawdust as the hay and newspaper should rot down quickly. The urine and droppings should be excellent activators.

Have you tried asking gardening neighbours if they want it for there compost?

 

it would be a shame not to compost rabbit waste as all the insect criters love it i would ask neighbours to see if they can help this is a bad time of year as compost slows right down

 

no i havnt but i may put an ad in our co op as we have allotments close by

 

Why not just walk down to the allotments and ask. There will probably be someone who has an open bean trench and wants something to put in. When we had a rabbit I made the best compost ever. I used to mix it with lawn mowings during the spring and summer.