SCD Probiokashi, Probiotic Technology for a sustainable future.

Why Compost Kitchen Waste?

It’s good for your garden. Food waste that has been fermented using the All Seasons Indoor Composter™ and All Seasons Bokashi™ is a nutrient‐rich “compost” for your yard and garden. It’s a chemical - free solution for stronger, healthier, more beautiful plants.

It’s safe to use, reduces foul odours, and is easy on your pocket.

All‐natural All Seasons Bokashi™ is safe to use around children and pets, and when added to your food scrapes, it controls the stinky odour normally associated with decaying food. What’s more, the All Seasons Indoor Composter Kit™ is competitively priced, and  available in retail stores around the country.

You can also feed the fermented food waste to your worms! In fact earthworms will love it so much that they will leave the fresh food alone and only eath the bokashi waste.

It helps save our planet.

One backyard at a time. Did you know that when untreated waste is sent to the landfill, it creates a harmful greenhouse gas which damages the Earth's atmosphere? However, when this same waste is composted with the All Seasons Indoor Composter™ and All Seasons Bokashi™ ,the fermentation process provides an eco‐friendly solution, read more...

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Bacteria vs Enzymes vs Chemicals

What Are Bacteria, Enzymes and Chemicals?

Bacteria are living cells which have the capabilities of consuming wastes of different types, reproducing, and actually producing enzymes.

Better said, bacteria are the factories that produce enzymes. When the right bacteria are present in the right quantities and in the right conditions, they produce enzymes much more economically than people can manufacture them.

Enzymes are NOT alive. They are complex chemicals produced by bacteria. They cannot reproduce, or actually consume waste. They speed up chemical reactions without getting used themselves. However, enzymes are all proteins, and some enzymes attack proteins. Therefore, enzyme usefulness is limited by digestion from other enzymes

Chemicals are NOT alive. Chemicals include soaps, harsh acids and bases, solvents, and enzymes. Chemicals do not reproduce themselves.

Chemicals can be used to mimic the properties of bacteria or enzymes, but they are either environmentally harmful, not as efficient, or both. 

How Do Bacteria, Enzymes and Chemicals Work?

Bacteria consume waste materials. When bacteria consume waste, they convert the waste into safe by products - carbon dioxide and water. When the waste materials are very complex (such as pond sludge), SCD Odor Away and SCD Bio Klean bacteria actually produce enzymes to break down the complex waste into simple compounds that the SCD Odor Away and SCD Bio Klean Bacteria can consume.

Enzymes are not capable of consuming waste materials, such as sludge or ammonia. Rather, all that they can do is convert complex wastes into simple wastes. Bacteria are still needed to consume the waste material - enzymes alone will not do the job. An enzyme product only has half the tools necessary to get the job done right!

Chemicals can oxidize sludge and ammonia, but only very harsh and dangerous chemicals can accomplish this job. Less hazardous chemicals are generally not effective in a pond environment for tough jobs like sludge digestion. Also, chemicals have considerable toxicity issues, and are likely to harm fish, wildlife, and the general pond health.

Which System is Best for the Environment?

Bacteria contained in SCD Odor Away & SCD Bio Klean are 100% natural, safe, and non-pathogenic. SCD Odor Away & SCD Bio Klean bacteria are not genetically engineered or altered in any way. Since bacteria both degrade complex waste AND consume the by-products, less pollution is discharged to the environment. SCD Odor Away & SCD Bio Klean bacteria also consume phosphates, ammonia, and nitrates. This improves water quality in lakes, ponds, and groundwater. SCD Odor Away & SCD Bio Klean is the environmentally superior solution.

Enzymes are not necessarily bad for the environment, but they do not have the advantages that the SCD Odor Away & SCD Bio Klean bacteria provide. Again, enzymes do not actually consume wastes, they simply break complex compounds into simpler compounds. Bacteria are still needed to finish the job.

Enzymes cannot help in removing pollutants such as phosphates, ammonia, and nitrate. Therefore, enzymes have limited benefits. For the complete solution, choose SCD Odor Away & SCD Bio Klean over enzyme products!

Chemicals are often bad for the environment, and they do not have the advantages that the SCD Odor Away & Bio Klean bacteria provide. Chemicals can be used for some pond water treatment, such as chlorine removal, heavy metal removal, and pH adjustment. But they are neither effective, economical or environmentally appropriate for removal of ammonia, nitrite, or sludge.

Consortium concept
Most microbial technologies today are based on “pure culture” methods of manufacturing. This means the microorganisms are grown as individual strains in sterile media. If a finished product contains more than one strain, each strain is typically grown in pure culture and then blended at time of packaging. SCD Probiotics Technology is fundamentally different because the selected strains are grown in “consortia”, in a process of co-growth that combines multiple strains during production. Therefore, each strain develops while interacting with other strains. Ultimately, through the proprietary consortia culturing processes, the microorganisms become a small eco system-- much more resilient and capable of working together synergistically. This methodology is more similar to how microorganisms actually survive in the natural environment. In nature, strains never exist in isolation or pure culture. They are always interacting with other strains.

Shelf life and stability
SCD’s Probiotic products and their live microbial components have been rigorously developed and tested for shelf-life stability. The minimum shelf-life of SCD Probiotics products with guaranteed microbial activity is 12 months; with SCD’s main products (Mother Cultures) having a guaranteed shelf-life of 3 years. This feature offers significant benefits to our customers in market development, distribution and logistics.

Survival under extreme conditions of temperature and pH
SCD Probiotics products maintain their guaranteed viable cell count under a temperature range of 5 to 50 degree Celsius (41° to 122° F) and pH range of 2 to 14. This means that the products do not require refrigerated storage and handling, contrasted with most microbial products. Also the products can perform in a wide range of applications where pH could be a restriction for other technologies.

Natural and organic technology
Each strain used in SCD Probiotics products is naturally occurring, not genetically modified and non-pathogenic. All ingredients used for culturing the microorganisms are natural and in most cases certified organic. Consequently, several of SCD’s main products are listed by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) for use in certified organic production.

Quality manufacturing
SCD produces its own microbial seeds and Mother Cultures in their own high quality facility. By controlling its own manufacturing and maintaining rigorous process and quality control standards, SCD guarantees consistent, high quality products.

Apart from the OMRI listing, SCD Probiotics complies with the current Food Grade Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Guidelines enforced in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration.GMP guidlines provide a system of processes, procedures and documentaion to assure the product produced has the identity, strength, composition, quality and purity that it is represented to possess.