does anyone use black trash bags for making compost??

i cant see spending hundreds for lumber, fence, etc to make bins. ive seen videos using trash cans with holes cut in them...i have mine laying on its side in a small retention pond i dug out for when next hurricane hits. will take a long time im sure

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zonavar68 · 56-60, M

I do landcare and one of things we do is make 'wraps' with weeds removed by the team of volunteers in black plastic. The 'solarising' effect kills the weeds and after several months the wraps can be unwrapped and you have big 'sausages' of inert bio-mass that can be spread out.

The plastic we use is big rolls of black builders plastic to make large sections of about 5 to 8 sq m that allows lots of weed materials to be rolled up and ends folded in. The sections can be re-used many times over to create new wraps until pieces get too many holes or just break down after months of sun exposure.