Celebrating six months of building-wide composting

It's hard to believe but Kai to Compost has been operating at our apartment building for about six months already!

I'm thrilled that it has been going brilliantly, with very few problems. Lots of residents have been using it, which is fantastic.

We get the bin collected once a week. There haven't really been any problems with smell or flies - there have been one or two flies around the rubbish room over the summer, but that's normal. We do ask people not to put meat or fish in the compost bin to try and minimise problems.

As with our recycling bins, a few people put the wrong stuff in the wrong bin. I think that's inevitable and should lessen as people become more familiar with the system.

Most people wrap their food scraps in newspaper, so we have this tidy pile of newspaper packages in the bin every week. I think we must have the neatest compost bin in Wellington!

Although the body corporate board was very skeptical and hard to convince at first, even they're sold now.