Home composting help
If you are want to get into home composting here are some links that you will find useful.
Why compost
Whether you try composting at home, or take advantage of your local council’s green waste collection facilities you’ll make a big difference. Any biodegradable waste sent to landfill is food for bacteria that release methane. Methane is a greenhouse gas 22 times more powerful than carbon dioxide and this is why it is so important to keep garden and park clippings out of landfill.
Getting started
If you want to try composting at home, I’d recommend getting a book from the local library first to see what is involved (or check out the links below) and only then selecting the size and type of compost bin for your garden; DIYers can have a go at building their own. Once you have the bin in your garden and you are feeding it the right mix of “greens” (for example: vegetable peelings, fruit, teabags, plant pruning and grass cuttings) and “browns” (for example: cardboard egg boxes, scrunched up paper and fallen leaves) you’ll be making great quality compost to spread over your flower beds in no time at all.
Spreading the word
If there are any compost associations, community compost schemes or other expert composters out there that would like to link from our compost section or can offer advice, send an email to recycling@premierwaste.com describing what you do and giving your web address.
If there are any compost associations, community compost schemes or other expert composters out there that would like to link from our compost section or can offer advice, send an email to recycling@premierwaste.com describing what you do and giving your web address.
Useful links
- The Compost Association has lots of technical material on their site: find it here.
- WRAP has a composting section on their website: find it here.
- The Recycle Now website has a special composting section full of practical advice: find it here.
- This site is aimed at allotments and has lots of information about composting: find it here.
- Community Compost Network: interested in setting up a community composting scheme, get lots of advice here.
- This how-to video by the nonprofit group Kitchen Gardeners International shows you step-by-step instructions for successful organic composting: find it here.
- Here is another good video explaining how to compost: find it here.
- Another site with some lots of advice, especially useful are some tips on improving your compost: find it here.
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