Composting - is this a good price for a composter?

ashmit

Lemoncurd, my husband thinks I'm mad for pretty much everything, but he just leaves me to it now He even apologised to the carrots for having teased me about them when he realised how much nicer they tasted

carol_a, do your kids realise that if we don't do things like compost, that the entire country will end up a rubbish bin?

tiff

Lemoncurd wrote:

Our local authority subsidises composters if you order through them and do one for £9.95 http://www.getcomposting.com/wm/index2.htm
I want to start doing this even though we won't be doing any gardening just yet - more from a reducing waste point of view. Is this a good type of composter to get and is that a good price for one? Would it be worth/a good idea to get the composter base or aerator too?

Bristol City Council charges £14 plus £3 delivery so I think thats a great price for one. Lidl had one in store recently for about £12.

carol_a_3

ashmit wrote:

carol_a, do your kids realise that if we don't do things like compost, that the entire country will end up a rubbish bin?

I know, normally they're very "green". I think it's just the "smelliness" of it all but they are getting more used to it now. We've only been doing it a few weeks. I can honestly say that each week I only put out about one third of a dustbin full of rubbish now.

sooz

our council is starting a borough wide compost scheme. we are being given a bucket, with lid thank god, and they will collect it once per week. not sure where i will put it though.

Lemoncurd

We never have much rubbish anyway but each time I put peelings etc in the bin it really makes me cringe thinking about it. Where to put all these bins is a problem though - used to have a normal dustbin that we half filled each week but at this place we have a huge wheely bin which is just annoying, we put it out last night with just 3 carrier bags of rubbish lost at the bottom.