Tempo in organic waste? What you have to consider when filling the bio bin
Many municipalities provide tons so that you can dispose of your organic waste from the comfort of your own home. The following article will tell you whether you can also throw Tempo in the mostly brown bin.
What you need:
- Compost bin
Which organic waste is allowed in the organic waste bin?
Basically, it depends on the municipality which organic waste you are allowed to dispose of in the bin. If necessary, ask your municipality or your waste disposal company.
- Organically degradable substances are considered organic waste everywhere. This primarily includes all food waste and kitchen scraps. You can always dispose of these in the brown bin.
- Food waste also includes used coffee and tea filters, eggshells, and bones.
- Furthermore, all garden waste such as small branches, weeds, lawn, flowers and leaves are considered organic waste.
- Hair, small animal litter, feathers and wood shavings are also counted as organic waste.
You want to dispose of your rubbish correctly and don't know what exactly is going to the black ...
So that the organic waste doesn't start to stink in the bin or a lot of small animals like Maggots collect, you can put additional materials in the organic waste bin.
- For example, you can wrap damp food scraps in newspaper before you put them in the bin. Make sure that you only use black and white paper and not a page from a colored glossy magazine, because that again is not organically degradable.
- Instead of the newspaper, you can safely use kitchen towels or Tempo to wrap the kitchen waste.
- You can also buy extra litter at hardware stores or garden shops, which you can sprinkle between the layers of organic waste to avoid any humidity arises.
When are tempos not allowed in the brown bin?
- If you have a cold and have used the Tempo to blow your nose, then of course you must not put the Tempo in the organic waste bin. Pathogens have no place in organic waste.
- It's the same if you've been picking up dog poop at the pace or wiping away urine stains. Then the Tempo belongs in the residual waste.
- Speed is also often used when checking the oil on a car. These used speeds must then even be disposed of as hazardous waste.
Whenever you have used Tempos, they should not be disposed of with organic waste.
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