Green Cone Garden waste / composter

DSmiffy

I suppose so yes. Mind you the Green Cone is supposed to have a "double walled system" or something like that, so that it heats up and there is air circulating, but hey what do I know !!! Think I might bury a dalek !! Anyone know what they are really called, or what they look like. I've never seen one.

squeaky

Whizz up to the link I posted about what my council has on offer - I'm pretty sure there's a picture somewhere - but honestly - if you've never seen a dalek you must be living on a different planet!

That's exactly what my bin looks like - a black dalek.

There's a good chance that your own council, if you follow links in their site to recycling, might have good offers on dalek types even if they don't do so well on green cone.

Edit: No picture on that link but mine is very similar to this one:-

calleyw

If you live in wiltshire (excluding Swindon)and get a freebie paper keep a look out for a leaflet from wiltshire wild life trust.

They are offering bins very similar to the one in squeaky's reply above for a very low price all the info needed is on the leaflet of how to order.

I don't want to say to much as I don't want to get in trouble as this is only for wiltshire residents.


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Calley

cath-w

Do you need to have one that looks 'nice'? I have several compost bins in my garden (as I grow most of my own food). They cost me nothing. I use old pallets which I blagged for free from various people. I then re-arranged some of the wooden slats and nailed it all together. Nice bins and they cost me nothing.

DO_YOU_KNOW_DAVE

I bought a dalek one for friends of mine, it cost around £25 with the base. They've put in the trees and bushes at the end of the garden. Anyway they have so much grass cuttings they just dumped them beside the composter. They found a fox asleep curled up in the grass the other morning with his back right upto the composter.

Kippsy

I know what the op means, the whole point is that all the stuff you can't put in your composter goes in the cone thing and only worms can get to it and they do all the work... If you were to put it in a normal "open" composter bin you would end up with rats etc. might look into getting a cone thingy actually.

I have a dalek, and a spare if anyone wants it and is down the wimbledon way! Don't know why but somehow we got two!

And why is it that no matter how much stuff you chuck in the bloomin thing it never seems to fill!
hoping that in about ten years I will be able to make my garden the same level as the house by using all my compost!

GeDink

In regards to compost bins - our council was selling a maximum of 2 per household, there were 2 different types - 1 for £5 and 1 for £15. My husband wrote back to them stating that if they wanted him to recycle his garden rubbish they should supply him with the necessary free equipment. We forgot about it until a man turned up on our doorstep from the council with 3 free compost bins!! So worth a try!!!!!