adventures in composting

Prompted by conversation elsewhere, I just want to note that I am still Very Happy with my Hotbin. My current Delight is that it will fairly happily digest polylactic acid, a bioplastic used as filament in many 3D printers: Adam's workplace has one such printer for general use, and these days there's a scrap bin kept next to it for misprints and odds & ends, which he then lovingly carries home to me, for me to take to the allotment as Bin Tribute. Really dense prints tend to need to go through twice, but they go from "impossible for me to crush" on the first pass to "trivial to fragment" for the second, so that's nice. Among other things, it's reducing my other plastic consumption in one significant way: I parcel my meds out into dosette boxes, and the thing I always break first is the lids, but! I no longer have to buy An Entire New Set when attempts to glue them back together fail, because Adam will now print them for me.

... which is a massive digression from the thing I actually intended to talk about, which is How I Keep My Bin Happy. So. Having enthusiastically vacuumed up pretty much all the info on their website, most-but-not-all of what I actually need to do to keep the bin happy is in there.

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... that is all the infodump I have in me right now, but I am very happy to be given further prompts? The executive summary is "pretty much always more shredded paper", though.