I've been thinking about a
compost chute in the kitchen for a while. My idea was to have a chute on the countertop that I'd open to put in food scraps (maybe followed by a handful of sawdust or similar) and for the chute to go straight outside.
I've seen an idea, like the image, where a chute goes to under the countertop only. Handy but not quite as lazy as I had in mind :)
I did think that maybe when the chute opened it also opens a trap at the bottom so the scraps can move freely through to the final destination, but when closed the trap also closes to stop any possible smells wafting upwards - which hopefully they won't exist too much anyway if a handful of
carbon is deposited at the same time. The chute's destination was going to be a pretty sizeable bin under the house, on wheels, that would be pretty much sealed (with air holes) and easy to roll out/replace with an empty one with a bed of sawdust, as it gets rolled to an open location to mature.
Is this a terrible idea? Or is there a glimmer of something valuable? I guess this is only really practical if you're building from scratch or maybe live in a house on stilts (as I do) where there is adequate space to use under the house. Maybe it's not quite as time-saving/practical as I first thought...
I'd love to hear if you use anything similar or different that works well for you. Currently, I just put scraps in a
bucket and empty every few days - it's not a huge hassle but was thinking about improving the process.
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