Greenwaste and Composting
Pictured: The late Fred Peyton who shared his knowledge and passion for composting by leading workshops in Central Otago for many years.
'Bokashi' is a Japanese term, meaning 'fermented organic matter' and is the basis of Bokashi NZ's flagship product, the ZingBokashi Compost Zing System.
ZingBokashi Compost Zing processes household organic matter into highly productive garden compost in just four weeks! Not only is it easy to use, readily available, and environmentally friendly, it also gives you many advantages over alternative methods of organic recycling and worm farms.
Advantages include:
- Decreased composting time - up to 50% quicker than traditional composting.
- Less odour as the food decays, due to the Bokashi fermenting, rather than decomposing process.
- Increased growing power resulting in healthier and more productive plants.
- Easy to use, requiring no mixing and produces a very natural pour-on liquid fertiliser as well as physical compost.
- Bokashi buckets are compact and (because they don't smell) you can easily keep them inside.
- Bokashi buckets can be purchased at Alexandra Wastebusters with a 50% subsidy for CODC residents. These can be purchased singly or as a two-bucket set. Extra Zing can also be purchased at Wastebusters.
Online sales of Bokashi products (free shipping within NZ) are available from the Zing Bokashi NZ store. Zing Bokashi bins are also available for sale at WasteBusters Alexandra.
