Real compost in your own home – this is how composting works at home

Smoothie bowl, brunch with loved ones or the routine evening meal. Who hasn't experienced it: Sometimes there's something left over - and we all have leftovers from chopping at home.

Now most people have three options for organic waste:

Waste Option 1: Residual waste

Waste Option 2: Organic waste

Garbage Option 3: Compost heap in the garden

Options #1 and #2 definitely do not make real compost. Food that ends up in regular garbage, i.e. residual waste, is actually a real eco-sin, because it is usually buried in landfills, where it continues to rot and emit climate-damaging methane gas.

Biological waste is often used to produce biogas or ends up in large composting plants where biological waste is processed into industrial compost and used, for example, for agriculture.

Anyone who has the luxury of having their own garden with a compost heap knows the benefits of real compost. However, making real compost in the garden takes some time - because organic waste takes time to decompose. A banana peel, for example, takes around six to eight weeks to turn into humus.

Isn’t there a faster, cleaner and, above all, more convenient solution for waste?

Real compost in just 48 hours – it's easy to do in your own home

soilkind is the first fully automatic composter that produces fresh, hygienic and real compost from organic waste within 48 hours. This is possible thanks to a patented two-chamber system that has been developed over the years and that uses your leftovers in an intelligent way. Very easily, right at home, for example in your kitchen.

Our composter takes up no more space than a well-organized trash can and is always at your side because you can easily fill soilkind with your waste at any time.

The best thing: Unlike a conventional compost heap, you can dispose of almost all organic food in soilkind and thus also fully utilize seasoned and cooked food, dairy products, meat or citrus fruits.

The device for your leftovers: Real compost without microorganisms

You may have come across a Bokashi bucket or other electric composters such as Lomi or WeEarth. All of them offer an alternative to the traditional trash can. And at the same time, as far as we know, they do not produce real compost.

Compost is a sophisticated process in nature that requires an optimal temperature, humidity and duration so that the naturally occurring microorganisms on the food receive optimal conditions to initiate a composting process.

At soilkind, we have developed a high-tech sensor system that is easy to use and creates the best conditions for this natural process to take place in a minimal amount of time: organic waste is turned into real compost in just 48 hours.

Other manufacturers use additional microorganisms to speed up their composting process. You have to add these bacteria separately for each composting cycle. soilkind processes your organic waste without these additives. This is how the power of nature and state-of-the-art technology work together.

Recycling organic waste into real compost – why is composting important? 

According to a study by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), around 1.3 billion tons of food are wasted worldwide every year. This not only produces climate-damaging gases - important nutrients that the earth and therefore also plants need to grow healthily and in a balanced way are not kept in the cycle.

Real compost is an all-rounder: It ensures that the soil is supplied with more nutrients - so you can do something good in the bed straight from the kitchen. Real compost also helps the soil to store more water and more oxygen.

After you have filled soilkind and the composter has done its job, can you either store the compost until the optimal time for fertilizing or use it straight away? When composting, your organic waste loses around 80% of its volume, so you have significantly less ready-to-use compost than organic waste. If stored away from light and air, the compost will last for up to two years.

soilkind's water tank provides you with nutrient-rich water that you can use to water your plants. This is how you can nurture and care for your soil and your plants, from the pot, through the bed, to the garden.