Trash, What Is Your Plan

We will have a problem with our various fire pits around the back 40. Even though we're on 10 acres, there are 1/2 dozen sub-divisions within distance of smelling our smoke and my brothers are not exactly good at being "subtle".
-It's a problem that will have to be solved "in real time". Ugh.

Stuff that needs rotting - well at least I have a good plan and am supplied for that....
Ferment everything.
Bokashi.
I've had nothing but amazing results with this stuff so far....
I did a double garbage bagged sack of wood chips in 2 months...
Burried it and it was RICH DIRT in MONTHS not YEARS.
You can hammer any meat and any food scraps into fermented bokashi in 8 weeks or less.
It does take some maintenance though with meat...you have to mind the liquids and drain it off.
Bury it and it will be super rich dirt faaaaar quicker than "composting".

I don't know if you can do feces with it....but I can't imagine throwing a handful of bokashi onto your poop pit would be anything but beneficial to making it disappear quicker...

MG

 

Now that you mention it, there are several around here as well. Not really within walking distance, but doable on horseback easily. Good idea. We already have a small dump/burn pit on site and honestly planned on that. Doing smaller burns does make sense, and I'm ashamed to admit I hadn't thought about this from that POV.

 

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After Fermenting…
The statement that the Bokashi mixture can be dug into the garden after fermenting for ten days shouldn’t be confused with the statement that the mixture is done. The on-line description of the bin refers to what’s produced in two weeks as “pre-compost” and warns that plant roots should not touch it directly for a week or two; only after a month is it fully incorporated into soil. (Like the anaerobic compost produced by digesters, Bokashi pre-compost is quite acidic when it first emerges from its bin.)

Some people feed pickled Bokashi material to their vermicomposting worms, apparently with no problems. Given how acidic the Bokashi process (and product!) are, and how sensitive worms can be to acidic environments, it may seem surprising that the worms do not react to fermented feedstock, but apparently it’s not a problem.

Others put Bokashi pre-compost into their regular composting pile. In gardens, one must remember not to plant anything where the Bokashi was buried for at least two weeks. Burying it in the compost pile eliminates this need. It also solves the problem of finding fallow space in small gardens. While it might seem pointless to use the Bokashi method if you’re just going to throw the stuff on the compost heap anyway, this objection misses an important point: while the material that goes into a Bokashi bin would take months to compost in an outdoor pile, the pre-compost breaks down completely in about a month.

The acidic nature of Bokashi means that one should keep an eye on the pH of the pile, especially if one is adding Bokashi frequently.
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True - when i dug up the chips to see what was left of them - there were tons of worms....

 

since i live in a city, i guess i'll just throw my trash down the balcony...

i haven't really thought about that one, and tbh, not quite sure yet what to do. i have a cemetery right across the street, might dump it there, but next to that it's kinda hard in a city to get rid of it.

 

You could find a mortuary nearly anywhere, and they have incinerators.

 

@BTPost what do they do with the trash out in your area?

 

Plastic is the biggest part of the equation, everything else can be ground and composted, I use the plastic in a rocket burner at less then a forty percent mix to wood products. Water dumping is a fast and forget it. It has long term feed back on the water table, in inland. Best thing "reduce and reuse".

 

I'm just gonna do what Grandma and Grandpa did. Save it if you can reuse it (maybe repurpose later .. that's what the junk pile was for), burn it, bury it or put it on the compost heap.

Not worried about open burning during SHTF, everything else will be burning/smoldering what's a little more particulate matter wafting in the breeze.

 

We have all metal dumpsters all over town. Fill 'em up, light a match. Wouldn't be the first time someone's set one on fire.... Living in town, everyone knows you're here anyway so alerting them to a trash fire not a big concern of mine. If it is, I'll use a dumpster by someone I don't like.

Animal remains... with 4 dogs we won't have to worry about that. They'll eat everything but the squeal. Plastic is the main problem in that it doesn't really burn, can't bury it or feed it to critters. We don't have much in use besides trash bags though.

I don't know how common it is in other areas, but around here some of the smallest towns (under 1000 pop) have old incinerators at the dump. Most of them haven't been used in fifty plus years but they still work and ours at least is pretty good sized... certainly big enough to toss a few bodies into.

 

Plastic means changeable or malleable, so if it will not burn or bury, melt and form it into bricks, and build with it.

 

I'd be keen to know how fast those grains would turn to dirt if you just threw a handful of bokashi into a garbage bag of grains and burried it immediately. I bet in 2 months it would be PH sweet and rich black dirt.
Worm farming....i should be doing this.

 

Out here in the county, trash burning is commonplace. Not a problem, I blend right in. For plastic and other unburnable trash, I have enough land to bury it.
Saw a video a couple years ago of a guy who is developing a small table-top unit that can turn plastic bottles and other such into fuel oil. Hopefully it will come to market for a decent price before SHTFday. I'll get one!