Chaff!!!

[Steve]

Any cleaver people out there know any properties of chaff and how a lot of it could be used in a green way.

I end up with so much chaff and if I could find a good home for it. you never know I might sleep easier at night , instead of thinking how big my footprint is and how much we spend on getting rubbish collected every week.

Today I had someone telling me that some of the big roasters either make it into pellets or bricks and use it as cattle feed!

But anyone who knows of its composting benefits etc please share.

[BazBean]

i recall from a dark recess in my mind that it was possible to make paper pulp logs for fires by using paper machay and compressing !

way out there but as we allready knowthey are combustable ( No joke intended) it might work? how you translate that into the business i dont know but it has a double effect in that it is recylcling but also stops another fuel from being used in a coal/wood fire .. you could maybe heat the unit with a wood burning stove and be self reliant?

top of head stuff but all ideas are valid ... after all someone once had an idea of roasting Luwak and people had to laugh at first surelly .....

[Steve]

Interesting stuff, never thought about that.

[Olings]

We are working with the same issue. I thought that maybe stables and farms could use them on the floor instead of sawdust that many use for pigs and horses and such. Not sure if this would work, it just seemed like a good idea.


Ola

[bruceb]

Gardners will go nuts for it. They use it in worm boxes, it's a terrific composting agent, loosens the pack and accelerates the composting process. Some people think it's great for mulching around plants (strawberries, etc.). It's sold in bags in the States and in some parts of Europe just for this use. Puro Coffee in the UK sells it, for instance.

I read that Fair Trade promotes the use of it as a nitrogen fertilizer.

I've been told that the big roasters grind it up with the beans.

There are artisan paper companies that make paper out of it.

It's used as a component of animal feed as it contains fibre, protein and fat.

How you might go about using this commercially I don't know. You can safely put it on your garden or into your compost heap.

[Steve]

How you might go about using this commercially I don't know. You can safely put it on your garden or into your compost heap. Very Happy

I'm not after anything commercial just seems a waste when something better could happen with it. So you reckon if I go to an all girl allotment I'll be popular?

[CakeBoy]

I can imagine it now ........

"Hey baby, fancy a sack of chaff?"

.... you charmer

[Steve]

I can imagine it now ........

"Hey baby, fancy a sack of chaff?"

.... you charmer

I know how to treat a lady right, just ask mrs steve

[CakeBoy]

..... she did mutter something about knowing the chaff from the wheat

[motoman]

....... Isn't that grounds for .............

[Steve]

....... Isn't that grounds for .............

<GROAN>

[tisri]

Use it as compost. You can also put coffee grounds on a compost heap, it's supposed to be very good. I don't have a compost heap so sometimes sprinkle it on the ground around my plants.