Countertop contraption could change cooking composting
(CrackBerry.com)

Composting is a great way to manage food waste, but what can apartment dwellers do? That`s what this box is for. Composting is a great way to manage food waste, but it`s so slow and it requires either large equipment or outdoor space you can dedicate to a pile of rotting biological material. That`s a problem that Nagualep is trying to solve with their NA-2 countertop composter. Throw your scraps from cooking, or leftover bits after you`re done eating, into the ceramic basket and it`ll go to work. By applying heat up to 126ºC / 260ºF and a ceramic shredding blade the NA-2 quickly desiccates and chops down all manner of scraps into waste that`s great for use as a fertilizer or animal feed. And it does all of this in one to five hours. Nagualep`s goal is to dramatically reduce the amount of food waste that just goes into the trash and is sent to a landfill to rot. Instead, everything from vegetable cuttings to egg shells to chicken bones can be chucked into the NA-2. Seal the lid and ...