Would you compost these?

i got a totem bin for xmas and the little caddy comes with these compostable bin liners

http://www.josephjoseph.com/en-gb/product/compostable-bags-931

I only got my hot bin composter last year so im completely new to composting. They say they are fine for a home composter but im a bit wary for some reason.

Would you guys put these in the compost?

 

I personly won't use them because they may take longer to decompose, all my food waste goes out daily

 

Me neither. Like Jiffy I empty mine (a small bucket) every day (or two) and then I just rinse it out.
They'll be fine for the cooked food caddy though.

 

I've had to hoik them out of the compost a year later and send them to landfill

 

Ah booooooooo

see i was hoping this would solve my problem.

Im not well enough to take the veg peeling out daily or every two days so i just go and empty the caddy into the compost bin when its full but it gets hot in my kitchen so things become kind of sludgy and then im not necessarily well enough to wash it up (or more likely to finish washing all the cutlery so i can wash it up) which then means it doesnt get used for a while and the other stuff ends up going in the normal kitchen bin.

Our local council doesnt do a food recycling thing just glass, paper, garden waste and plastic so cant use them for that.

 

So i have found the critrea it has to meet

http://www.okcompost.be/data/pdf-document/Doc-09e-a-Requirements-of-norm-EN-13432.pdf

It mentions industrial composting at first and then says has to be broken down in 6 months

Im wondering if my hot bin composter if it is running properly would be able to break these down.

 

Only one way to find out, but i'm not holding my breath on it i'm afraid

 

Hmmm i spose i could try one and then i guess i could use the bags in the caddy just for carrying the stuff to the compost bin and tiping the contents into the bin from the bag and then binning the bag lol

 

Gave up on those bags ages ago, they take longer to rot than the compost inside, possibly inhibiting the overall process, and get horridly tangled on hand fork/rotovator tines when trying to spread stuff.

We've got numerous 'waste food caddies' donated by those who can't cope/be bothered with them, think they're about 15 Litres, and simply line with a few sheets of newspapers, no need whatsoever for expensive liners.

 

Thats a good idea @Scrungee

Do you then rip up the newspaper before putting it in the compost. Or do u just bin it?

 

No need to rip it up, Scrunge would have cut out all the money off coupons first to aid aeration

 

Just ease the soggy liner out with a bit of stick, if it doesn't drop by itself.

 

Newspaper absorbs not only moisture but also the bad smells, I put newspaper in our general bin as well to absorb bad smells.

I line the bottom of our caddy with a couple of sheets of newspaper before I begin to fill it. We don't empty ours for at least a month and by that point its pretty wet and full of fruit flies. I keep mine by the back door now.

I personally would rather newspaper was recycled and am experimenting with ling the bottom of my caddy with sawdust instead as I have more of this at my disposal and isn't really recyclable.