Green Cone Food Waste Digester

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The Green Cone uses solar heating in its double-walled chamber to speed up the aerobic decomposition process in the underground digestion basket.

The accelerator powder is simply a mixture of natural bacteria that ensures a healthy population of safe bacteria to keep your Green Cone working efficiently. Green Cones are not bear proof. If you live in bear country, you may need to install the cone in a protected area, such as surrounded by an electric fence. Another deterrent is to put cayenne pepper on the lid after each use. Additionally, it’s a good idea to wait until bacteria become well established in the cone before adding animal attractants like meat, fruit, and other strongly scented foods. The regular addition of a little accelerator powder (a mixture of natural bacteria on a cereal base) is necessary to boost the digestion process.A small amount of waste residue is produced which can be emptied every few years and dug into garden soil. Create fantastic focal points to display your plants with our selection of garden baskets, plant pots, planters, and sleepers. Add character to your garden and enjoy the versatility to move your favourite flowers and shrubs around throughout the year. Available in heavy-duty wire, willow, or rattan, our hanging baskets are a great way to brighten up your space. Made in the UK from 100% recycled plastic, the Green Cone has an expected lifespan of 10 years or more. The Green Cone comes with accelerator powder and a shaker jar. Where the Green Cone is situated in a position that does not enjoy full sun or during long periods of cold weather, the digestion process may benefit from the application of accelerator powder. Simply shake a small amount of powder into your compost pail before emptying food waste into the Green Cone. Additionally, an estimated 30% to 40% of food — much of it perfectly edible — ends up in landfills in the United States. Aside from being wasteful, disposing of that much uneaten food means landfills give off significant greenhouse gas emissions.

The Green Cone is a unique and environmentally-friendly solution for disposing of household food waste. The unit accepts all cooked and uncooked food waste including vegetable scraps, meat, fish, bones, dairy products and other organic material. Nature does the rest, reducing the Green Cone's contents to water and carbon dioxide. Over 90% of the waste material in your Green Cone will be absorbed as water by the soil. Designed for a sunny spot in a well drained garden, the Green Cone is suitable for an average household of four people. The Green Cone is a solar-powered food waste digester that efficiently disposes of all food waste - including cooked food, meat, fish (even bones) and dairy - with no turning or stirring required. Accelerator powder is a mixture of bacteria and cereal grains. The microorganisms help break down food inside the cone, so periodically adding more of them speeds up the digestion process. Food waste should be dropped into the Cone directly, not in bags of any kind, even compostable ones. Waste lands in the underground basket, where micro-organisms and worms enter and begin to break it down. The upper part of the Cone above ground remains empty: the inner and outer cones create a heat trap of circulating air that facilitates the growth of beneficial micro-organisms and promotes the aerobic digestion process.If flies become a problem, avoid using chemical pesticides in the cone. Instead, spray the insects with an organic product that will break down in the cone over time. Please note as of January 2021, the Green Cones come in a slightly darker shade of green than the photos above. A compost system produces compost — fertile, nutrient-rich soil — as a byproduct of the decomposition process. It requires the addition of carbon material like straw, paper, or leaves, and you may have to turn the material to help it break down. Each Green Cone comes with a waste caddy for collecting food scraps. When the caddy is full, you take it outside and add the scraps to the Green Cone, then close the cone’s lid.