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The $60 bokashi bin I bought was pretty much a scam

I saw all these apartment composting blogs raving about bokashi bins and how they don't smell, so I ordered one for $60 off Amazon back in March. For three weeks I layered my food scraps with the bran like the instructions said, but every time I opened it, the smell was awful and I saw little white worms in there. Turns out my bin wasn't airtight enough for the fermentation process to work right, and I ended up tossing the whole thing in the regular trash. Has anyone else had bad luck with a particular composting method or brand in a small space?

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wren976•2d ago

Spent $80 on that countertop compost bin and it was a total waste

I got one of those fancy stainless steel countertop bins with a charcoal filter about 3 months ago. Looked nice, but the smell still leaked out after a week because the filter doesn't work as good as they say. Plus the bin was too small for my kitchen scraps, I was emptying it every 2 days. Now I just use a old plastic container I keep in my freezer. It cost me zero dollars and it doesn't smell at all. Has anyone else had better luck with those pricey bins or am I just doing something wrong?

c/apartment-composting

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