I was a bit afraid that it would be a bit smelly since it’s like 3 months old but when I opened the cap, all I smell is lemon!! Oh my, it smells nice!! Lemon Air freshener? hahahahahaa..

tah-dah!!!!

There are altogether 7 bottles (500 ml), more than what I expected.. not bad not bad..I guess, my second, third and fourth garbage enzyme will also used a lot a lot of lemon too. What about you? Have you started making garbage enzyme yet?

So do remember to bring a reusable bag when you shopped at IKEA. Let’s be more environmental-friendly and together(with Ikea), we save the Earth! hehe…

p/s: you can get Ikea’s reusable bag (the big blue bag) at RM 1.90 (previously RM 3.90) only.

Here’s the garbage enzyme formula:-
1kg Black/Brown Sugar
3Kg Kitchen waste (Fruits skin/vege/pandan leaves, don’t use meat, else it will be very smelly!!)
10 litre of water

If you have more kitchen waste, say 6kg, then you should use 2kg of black sugar and 20 litre of water. Just calculate accordingly.

any air tight plastic container/bottles will do

Black Sugar

My aunt’s friend got this from a fruits seller in the market. we can’t possibly eat so much fruits lar!! hehe..

let’s see how heavy is this.. it’s 12.5kg!!

We will need 10 litre of water for every 3kg of kitchen waste, therefore, our 12.5kg will need about 40 litre water and 4kg of black sugar.

First, dilute black sugar (4kg) in water (40 litre), then add in all the kitchen waste/fruits skin. If you want it to smell better, add in more lemon/orange peels and pandan leaves. You can add in anything you want, as long as it’s vege and fruits. Preferably no meat cos it will be very smelly.

cut the fruits/skin into small pieces

Close it tight, place at cool, dry and well ventilated area and avoid direct sunlight. Keep it for at least 3 months (the longer the better, it will not expired) and remember to open daily to release gases for the first month.

After 3 months, filter and remove the residue. You can reuse the residue again for a new batch of production by adding fresh garbage or you can buried the residue in the ground as a fertilizer.

These garbage enzyme are ready for use!!

The garbage enzyme should be in brown color, if it turned black, add in the same amount of sugar and start the fermentation process all over again. You may encounter white, brown, and black layer (or even worms) on top of the enzyme during the fermentation process. Do not worry, leave it as it is and the chemical reaction will resolve them naturally.

So how useful is the garbage enzyme? Well well well…When you mop the floor, add a small cap of enzyme into the water and you will see a lot of dirt comes off. You can also used it to wash the toilet bowl and trust me, it will be sparkling clean!! Add some enzyme into your glass cleaner and your mirror will be shiny and clean.

It’s best to use on oily stuff, i used to have a hard time cleaning the kitchen’s hood cover (the one that filter the oil) but the enzyme makes my life easier. I tried soaking the cover into water with detergent and enzyme, gently rub the cover and tah-dah, no more oily cover!

The garbage enzyme is really an excellent cleaning tool. You can also add some into your shampoo or body shampoo or whatever you can think of. Well, I really can’t think of a reason why you should not make the garbage enzyme.

Let us all save the earth through garbage enzyme!!

Anyway, last week I finally remember to bring it along with me when I go Carrefour. We got ourselves a trolley and I put the shopping bag in the trolley. Before I stepped in to the hypermarket, the security guard at the entrance stopped me. She said she need to wrap the shopping bag with plastic!!

I brought this shopping bag along with me is because I want to reduce the usage of plastic bags but now, before I buy anything, I already wasted a plastic bag!!! See!!

My recycle shopping bag is being folded and wrapped within the plastic bag!! A shopper passed by and asked us? Har? recycle bag also need to wrap ar… Ya ya, I told him, I’m not sure I’m doing the right thing or not, I’m actually wasting a plastic bag here!!

You know what, Carrefour itself is selling their own recycle bag, and very funny, cos they don’t encourage you to use it!! To me, I think if you want to encourage ppl to use less plastic bags, you yourself should really STOP wasting plastic bags! If you feel that you can’t allowed ppl to enter with an empty recycle bag, then I think Carrefour, you SHOULD NOT sell the recycle bag in the first place.

So far, I found that Jusco & Cold Storage (especially Cold Storage, they are selling the recycle shopping bags at a very cheap price) are really encouraging ppl to recycle. They sell recycle bags, and they encourage their shoppers to use it! Unlike those hypermarkets like Giant/Carrefour, they sell it, but they don’t allow you to use it!!

Any of you experience this? I’m really very unhappy about this!! Is there anywhere to complaint ar?