This week, in her piece for the Parys Gazette, Lisa looks at plastic bottles and being able to refill containers with water, milk and fresh juice. In her household, milk consumption is high with use in breakfast cereals, cooking (quiches, sauces, baking) and also milk drinking. The number of 2l plastic containers going into her …
YOLO’s Lisa is on a mission. Watching Zero Waste ‘activist’ Bea Johnson’s video recently set off a chain reaction. With her YOLO Compost Tumbler in action, Lisa is sorted on the 5th of Bea’s 5Rs (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot). Now she’s working on the first two. She is writing a new column for …
When you receive your YOLO Compost Tumbler, you won’t find a piece of paper with printed instructions inside. We aim to eliminate waste and also to avoid things that people have to throw away or instructions that they can lose. We chose instead to put moulded-in graphics on the side of the shell. There is …
Tabetha recently received her YOLO Compost Tumbler. She dropped me a note: “So, finally I put up my YOLO and I am very excited but I have no idea where to start and what to put in vs not to put in. Do I put in all natural waste ( banana peels, potato skin, pineapple …
As the mercury drops, wood-burning heaters – like the classic kaggel – are getting fired up. You’ll be pleased to know that wood ash can be added to your YOLO Compost Tumbler.
Jeremy is having mixed success with his composting. His wife doesn’t always chop up the stuff that she drops into their YOLO Compost Tumbler – like tossing in a whole brinjal that went off. His children added some really big, tough leaves from their garden just as they started to add contents to their YOLO. …
For any composting method, smaller pieces of material will mix better and breakdown faster. With the autumnal abundance of dry leaves at the moment, resist the temptation to just toss a bucketful into your YOLO Compost Tumbler. The leaves will probably clump (as in any compost). Allow the leaves to dry and crush them as …
Every YOLO Compost Tumbler shell-full of compost will be different because of what you’re adding to the mix and the environmental influences.
Egg cartons are one of my favourite and readily accessible carbon-rich ‘browns’. They help to soak up moisture from ‘green’ kitchen cuttings. Smaller pieces incorporate better and don’t matt. Involve your children in your composting by getting them to tear egg cartons into little pieces and add regularly to your YOLO Compost Tumbler. If your …
I’ve just learned about Bea Johnson and her Zero Waste Home website. She is currently in South Africa and she is giving a talk today (8 May) in Durban (13h00 – 17h00) and tomorrow (9 May) in Bryanston, JHB (18h00 – 20h00). Bea has “launched a global movement, inspiring thousands of people throughout the world to …
