Tea Bag composting

Tea is the social drink of the world & it’s dead fashionable to compost these days, so other then our regular organic waste why not compost Tea Bags as man kind consumed 5.2 million metric tons of tea in 2009 alone. Tea Bag composting should be a simple task but thanks to many manufacturers using syntactic Tea Bags instead of paper, one needs to be a bit conscious before chucking their Tea Bag into the compost bin, as you don’t wanna picks those tiny plastic bags once you intend to use your compost…
If your Tea Bag's made out of paper and has an organic thread with a paper based tag then all you need to do is to throw the used bag in your compost bin straight away and the Tea Bag should take about 4 days in humid conditions before releasing the tea inside while the paper and thread should take about a month before breaking down…
If the tea bag is made out of a synthetic material then you might wanna cut the bag and put its contents in the compost bin… other then Tea Bags one can also compost used tea leaves.
In countries like China, Pakistan, Morocco & India tea leaves are infuse in water to create mix tea which is then strained before serving, these strained tea leaves can also be washed under a tap in the strainer and then dumped with other organic waste to compost bins….
Tea leaved and tea bags are great for composting as they increase the mass of compost really quickly and also help in speeding up the composting processes as they posses’ acidic phosphates…which become great heating agents in a compost bin.
So next time think twice before wasting a used tea bag as its green gold you’re about to trash….

Composting aka life

Composting frankly is expansive then not composting, but still we should practice composting regularly cos composting is purposeful and pays back in the longer run. Composting was being practiced by the ancient Romans and there are traces of practicing composting in many religious scriptures.

Composting occurs due to the activity of microorganisms available in the soil & organic materials. Composting is nature’s recycling process that helps break down organic materials into a nutrient rich soil like substance that is extremely good for plant growth. Some argue that nature does not compost, it only mulches. Well mulching it’s self is the most basic form of composting. Through mulching nature not only saves the fertile layers of soil in the forest from washing away but also maintains a constant cycle of composting. Last weeks mulch would be today’s compost. As composting creates the skin [top soil] in nature so it’s wise to starts composting with the skin of our organic trash.

What to compost:

Composting can turn a lot of our organic trash into fertile organic goodness. If you live in a developing or a third world country then you could do a lot of composting compared to the people who live in developed countries with processed & caned food. Fruit & vegetable peels along with egg shells and dead leaves are some very basic composting ingredients that come out of our kitchens almost every day.

Where to compost:

Compost in your back yard or on your roof top or even in your garage.

Composting pot & process:

If your intend to start with kitchen based composting, a couple of large terracotta pot should be your basic apparatus, placed on top of each other with table tennis ball sized hole at the base of the top one. Now start dumping your organic raw kitchen waste except flesh into the top pot and cover it with your grass clippings or dead leaves and if you feel that the materials are too dry simply sprinkle some water. After about a couple of weeks start shaking the top pot and the broken down compost would pour down to the bottom pot which could be later on used to feed plants and vegetables.

Composting means Life:

A single spade from the middle of a compost bin contains more species of organisms than can be found above ground in the entire Amazon rain forest.