Grab a Compost Bin for £6

RichieUK

Check Recycle Now for composting offers in your area

Poppycat

Can anyone tell me, can you use these to put domestic rubbish ie left over food from you plates etc in or is it just excess garden material in? Thanks

diluvsdiscounts

Poppycat wrote:

Can anyone tell me, can you use these to put domestic rubbish ie left over food from you plates etc in or is it just excess garden material in? Thanks

you can compost most natural garden waste in your compost bin and most kitchen waste but only before its been cooked
ie/veg peelings
fruit,apple cores etc
egg shells

another good idea is to screw some newspaper up and also add that to your compost it gives the bugs air pockets to move round in!!Sounds disgusting doesn't it well give it a couple of weeks and it will also look and smell disgusting BUT it makes fantastic compost and think of how you are helping the earth!!
you need a good mixture of everything in there but don't add shredded paper apparently it doesn't decompose once its been shredded!Don't quote me on that but I read it somewhere.

ikr2

Leicestershire definitely have the £6 scheme for compost bins. If you have a lot of lawn like we do you can buy up to 3. Form can be found on the Leics County Council web site.

PS well mixed compost shouldn't smell that awful - more of an earthy smell. If it smells bad, add newspaper (as already mentioned), old cardboard egg boxes and other "brown" compost waste

sue-f_4

Composting bins are available for £6 including delivery, from Winchester City Council website

grayfray

Street Scene Services in partnership with Lancashire County Council are offering free home composting kits to all West Lancs residents. The kit includes a 330 litre compost converter with hatch and a kitchen caddy.

To order your free kit, call 0845 658 8550 or order online at the Lancashire Compost-it website.

http://www.compost-it.org.uk/scheme/compost_converter.htm

tristar_3

Yes Lancashire is offering them free of charge up to a maximum of 4 per household, I have already received my 4 free of charge and delivery together with free caddy bin and bio degradeable lining bags, WELL DONE LANCASHIRE, show the yorkshire tykes a thing or two

Lorian

Don't know what shapes are being offered now, but I have three of these from local council offers. My advice is to buy the SQUARE ones as they kepp more compost and take up less ground space when you have several together. Also if they come with bases don't use them, fut them on to soil as you'll get worms in to help the composting.

Also, warmth helps. And of course the special additive to get them going really well .

If you are going to put in lots of grass layer it with some dry material (or newspaper) or you'll end up with a black "tar like" sludge. Still works as compost but smells and is difficult to work with.

I love my composters :rolleyes:

robotmum

I got my compost bin via the recycle now website. Same offer - a massive bin for £6 including delivery. Plus I got a free mini caddy to keep in the kitchen to save having to keep trotting out to the bin. It came with a roll of biodegradable bin bags too!

Poppycat

For North Yorkshire residents you can get other things including composter above

http://www.getcomposting.com/yny/index2.htm