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The Green Cone on a Rooftop, Parking Lot, Balcony...

Cone composter
Food-waste digesting planters are the future in designer pets. Digest your organic waste on-site no matter where you are.  No smell, no stirring, takes meat, bones, and cooked and uncooked food waste. Worm composting worries about worms escaping, drowning, or freezing are over. Perfect for rooftops, apartment balcony gardens, driveways and parking lots.

The Green Cone can be buried inside a large container of earth big enough to bury it and host a few plants. The larger the better—five inches of soil around base is the minimum, and high quality soil aids digestion as does compost accelerator powder.  A half wine cask makes a perfect compost container. 

Food-waste is mostly water weight (up to 90%) and especially in the rain drainage is a must. The Green Cone digests much faster when properly drained.  A nutrient rich water (like compost tea) can be diluted further and used for plants!  The Green Cone should be in the Sun to maximize solar heating and air cirulation. 





Green Cone System Information

Green Cone in a box.

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This Green Cone in a box was built in Ottawa for a driveway in the Sun. Made with recycled wood, the box is big enough to hold 6 inches to 1 foot of soil or mulch around the basket of the cone.

Details on construction and success 

Also being tested in British Columbia on top of the Lighthouse Sustainable Building Centre by Durable Solutions.  And in use at Reading International Solidarity Centre in the U.K. 

A fabric container system, pictured top of page with flowers, is called the Smart Pot.

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Compostec is in ON, QC, NB, NS, PEI, NFLD with the Green Cone, the Green Johanna and sometimes the Brome Modular Composter. We work with those already using these technologies and others in Canada and AROUND THE WORLD to help get everyone digesting and composting onsite. We're all figuring this out together. Get in touch!