How to Build and Fill an Indoor Compost Bin for your Kitchen
Materials for Building an Indoor Composting Bin - (left to right) black rubber mat, organic potting mix, organic composted manure, old furniture legs, 10 gallon metal garbage can, newspapers and food scraps.
The tools and materials to build an indoor compost bin:
- Tools
- Drill with 1/4″ bit
- Materials
- 10 gallon metal garbage can
- Black and white newspaper
- Rubber mat
- Organic potting mix
- Composted organic manure
- Old furniture legs
- Food scraps
- Building the bin went down like this
- Drilled holes in the bottom of the garbage can. Supposedly this allows for aeration and to help the compost do it’s thing.
- Shredded the newspapers by hand.
- Set up mat and rested garbage can on the furniture legs.
- Put in first layer of newspapers and some of the potting mix.
- Added a layer of the food scraps (Totally forgot to take a picture of this part).
- Sprinkled some of the composted manure.
- Covered with layer of newspaper and potting mix.
- Food layer. Then another layer of newspaper and soil.
- Closed up and done.







