Composting

30% of our waste to landfill is kitchen & food waste, so composting has an instant impact on reducing waste to landfill and the amount in your bin.

When we get the twin bin waste collection service, around April 2012, we are likely to have our current Green wheelie bin (waste for landfill) collected every 2 weeks. The additional Blue wheelie bin (recycling materials) collected the other alternate weeks. What will be the impact on your bin? Overflowing? Smelly, particularly in hotter weather? Vermin attracted?

The answer is composting:

you deal with all your domestic kitchen waste before it gets smelly

reduce your bin contents by 30%.

you help to reduce all the negative impacts of your compostable wastes going to landfill.

Do you know how to do this safely?

The simple Dalek type bins are a basic bin for our conditions. They will deal with vegetable & fruit peelings, mixed with torn up or shredded paper.

Even better are the Green Johanna bins, which are more vermin proof and suitable for cooked food waste.

 

Everything that once lived will ultimately break down back to its basic elements. Composting is the simplest form of recycling there is, it's natures way of re-using her "stuff". You can do it at home and it closes the loop of producer to re-user.

When food waste goes to landfill we create :

Pollution & fossil fuels are used - associated with the road miles of the bin lorries in & out of the village.

Leachate & methane produced in landfill sites. Plastic & other non-biodegradables are mainly inert but add degradable materials & you get a really toxic mix.

The loss of soil enriching material from the ground.

Reduces the amount of compost we buy in for our tubs & pots!

When food waste is composted at home, no food waste miles, no nasties from our waste in landfill and lovely compost as a by product - win, win.

Picture pulling up a carrot from the garden, taking it to the kitchen, peeling, cooking & eating it. You are left with the peel which, when mixed with carbon rich material (twiggy garden waste, cardboard) in a compost heap, becomes nutritious compost eventually. This is spread on the ground & becomes next years growing medium for another carrot crop. That is simple closed loop recycling, producing a product out of waste which is re-used again & again & again.......

"There is no waste in nature"