This unique recycling system uses bokashi to ferment food waste inside a sealed container. This means there's no rodents, no insects, no spoiling, and NO ODOUR. The end result is a pickled mass of food waste, which, when placed in a garden, break down into rich humus within a matter of days, releasing nutrients, microbes and structure to the soil.
And unlike other forms of recycling, such as composting and worm farming, there is no food waste you cannot put in the bokashi system treats paper, citrus, onions, dairy, even meat!
Bokashi is a generic Japanese word for "fermented organic matter". Eco Organics ferments a large range of organic materials, such as grains, animal manures and vegetable materials, to produce different varieties of Bokashi for different applications.
The Bokashi used in our Eco Bokashi Recycling Systems is crushed Australian grain (usually barley, wheat and/or rice mixture) fermented with our beneficial microbes and molasses. This material has a moderate nutrient value on its own, but is also teeming with billions of beneficial microbes which go straight to work when in contact with organic material, such as the food scraps in the Bokashi bins, or the organic matter within the soil.
The microbes work in an anaerobic environment - i.e. with no Oxygen - so they don't produce heat or odours, there is no leachate problem, and no insects or rodents either. Bokashi can be used for:
What is Eco Bokashi Fermentation, and why is it so much better than composting?
Fermentation is a process of treating organic waste which uses anaerobic microbes, rather than aerobic microbes. It is similar to the process of pickling - a pickled onion for example still looks like an onion, although inside it has changed completely.
The advantages of this process are many, including reduced greenhouse gas emission, a more nutritious end-product, and far easier management.
A comparison of the two processes is as follows:
Traditional Composting
Eco Bokashi Fermenting