Gardeners it’s time to spontaneously compost!

Compost Awareness Week

Recycle for Greater Manchester is keen to encourage gardeners across the region to home compost some of their food and garden waste to save them money and help the environment, whilst they watch their gardens flourish.

Almost half of the food waste in your rubbish bin can be composted, so instead of throwing it away, turn it into a valuable and natural resource for your garden.  

Composting organic waste at home is a simple and cost effective way of producing a soil enrichment product for your garden, and also helps to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfill. It will help improve the condition of your soil, suppress plant disease and produce better plants and flowers in your borders, hanging baskets, window boxes and vegetable plots.

You can home compost many household waste items including; egg shells, vegetable peelings, fruit scraps, egg boxes, coffee grounds and teabags, as well as sawdust, cardboard and wood shavings.

The food that you can’t put in your home compost bin can go in the food and garden recycling bin for collection by the Council, which takes all raw and cooked food and garden waste. It will then be taken to an In-Vessel Composting facility for conversion into compost.

To see what’s available in your local area call 0844 571 4444 or look online at www.getcomposting.com. Simply enter your postcode to find the best deal for you.