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 Home composters at discounted prices

Using a composter means that you can help stop thousands of tonnes of kitchen and garden waste going to landfill and turn it into useful soil conditioner for your own garden instead.

If you want to give composting a try it couldn’t be easier as residents can buy reduced price composters. Reduced price wormeries, bokashi systems and water butts are also available.

Site the composter either directly on the soil or on hard standing such as bricks, paving slabs or concrete and then start putting the compostable items listed below in it. The composter will work quickest if it is in full sun and you turn the contents periodically with a garden fork, however this is not essential.

Composting in Rushcliffe

Home composting has been practiced for many years, and provides a dark, soil-like substance that is used to enrich garden soil and nourish houseplants. Every bit of household waste that is composted reduces the need for landfills and means less of our waste has to be incinerated, making our environment greener and cleaner.

Rushcliffe residents have over 13,000 compost bins, which have helped in keeping waste tonnages in the Borough comparatively low. In an ideal world all residents should compost biodegradable waste at home, but in reality The Council know that offering a collection service is the only realistic way of removing this material from the waste disposal stream.

Green organic garden waste is one of the main biodegradable elements of the waste stream and as it decomposes in landfill, it releases gases (carbon dioxide and methane) and leachate (liquid mix of heavy metals and chemicals), which can cause air and ground water pollution.

The green garden waste collected from the kerbside is taken to on-farm sites at Stragglethorpe and Oxton, where it is placed into open windrows for composting. The end product is used as a soil conditioner.

Information and helpful hints on home composting and General composting information.