Rethink your rubbish and compost!
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Many items can be effectively recycled at home – food waste, dried leaves, grass cuttings – by creating your own compost, which can then by used in your garden, on your allotment or for potting plants around the home. Why compost?
It’s good for your garden – it provides it with nutrient rich food. It’s good for the environment – home-made compost is natural and peat-free It’s good for your pocket – it reduces the need for you to buy peat products for your garden. What do you need to do? - Find the right site – your bin or on bare soil are ideal.
- Add the right ingredients – vegetable peelings, dried leaves are just some of them
- Fill it up!
- Wait a while – check its progress. After 9-12 months, the ingredients should have turned into a crumbly dark brown.
- Collect the compost – lift the bin off the compost or open the hatch at the bottom and scoop out the fresh compost. If you have built your own, rake it out.
- Use it and watch your garden bloom.
If this interests you, then why not rethink your rubbish and get composting. Surrey Waste Partnership is offering subsidised compost bins (available from £15). Visit the Surrey Waste Partnership website or call 0844 571 4444 and start composting today! You can also find helpful tips about what can and can’t go into your compost.
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