Here's this month's Green Experiemnt: Garbage Enzyme. The info on it claims it can be used to keep piles clean, to digest compost faster, to purify lakes and ponds, to clean the air like Febreeze or Lysol, to generate ozone, to disinfect surfaces, to stop toxins in cosmetics and soaps from getting into your skin, as a fertilizer for plants of all sorts... and on and on. And it's easy to make: 1 part sugar, preferably molasses or dark brown sugar, three parts foodscraps (plant-based, like you'd put in the compost), and ten parts water. Seal up in a jar or bottle, put in a dark place, and ferment for three months, venting the gasses every few days for the first month or so. In the end, you've got a liquid with a blob of bacteria like the kind that makes vinegar or kombu, only the anaerobic kind, floating in it, and it shouldn't smell bad anymore. So I'm going to test this. I'm going to mix some up today and put it under the porch and see how it goes. If it can function through a Florida summer and gives me a nice fetlizer alone come fall, I'll consider it worthwhile; if it does better than that, I'm totally going to make a batch every month and use it for everything.
This is update 1. In a week or two, I'll update again, and so on until the end of three months, when we'll see if anything has come of it. If not, we'll trash it and find something else to clean the planet with.
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