In my country, we have started composting in restaurants.
Restaurants, usually throw hot remains to the compost bin, for example: cooked remains.
In my opinion these remains are too hot, and bacteria and another compost fauna die.
I need you opinion about restaurant composting and about hot remains in compost.
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I think it is terrific that restaurants are composting scraps and leftovers instead of all that stuff going to waste.
Even if they are going directly into the compost bin, rather than into a kitchen holding tank to be emptied later, I find it hard to imagine that they are still hot enough to be damaging by the time they get there.
But tom is right, for good compost all the soft/ wet stuff of scraps and leftovers really needs to be mixed with carbon rich, hard/dry stuff like autumn leaves, paper products, etc.
Even if they are going directly into the compost bin, rather than into a kitchen holding tank to be emptied later, I find it hard to imagine that they are still hot enough to be damaging by the time they get there.
But tom is right, for good compost all the soft/ wet stuff of scraps and leftovers really needs to be mixed with carbon rich, hard/dry stuff like autumn leaves, paper products, etc.