50 Litre Food Waste Drum

THE BOKASHI PROCESS

There are only three – but very important – rules for processing food waste with bokashi.

1. Only add food waste into the airtight drum. All animal or plant material that would naturally decompose in the environment can be added, including cooked and raw food and small bones. No plastic, glass or metal should be added into the drum. Food that has already gone rotten should also not be added.
2. Keep the drum closed after adding food waste and bokashi, and sealed tight at the end of the shift.
3. Always add bokashi between food waste layers as well as on the bottom of the empty drum, and on top of the last food waste layer. Bokashi is essential to the process. It is the microbes in the bokashi medium that prevents rotting, odours and prepares the food waste into a beneficial matrix, ready for composting, burying or feeding to an earthworm farm.

REQUIREMENTS

1. EARTH BOKASHIEarth Bokashi is all natural, 100% biodegradable and presents no threat to human, animal or plant health and therefore no risk of toxic contamination in a kitchen.
2. FERMENTATION DRUMSA 50L drum is used to ferment and treat food waste. These are air-tight and should be kept closed when food waste is not being added.At the beginning of the shift unlock the locking ring and place it beneath the lip on the drum for safe keeping. At the end of the shift place the locking ring back into place and seal the lock.

            A 50L drum will hold 40kg when full.

KITCHEN RESPONSIBILITIES FOR MANAGING THE PROCESS: