Compost Making and Organic Gardens
Compost your weeds and kitchen waste and have a beautiful organic garden ....

		Recycle your plant-based, kitchen and garden waste by making it into compost. Dig it in to have a healthy, fertile garden and your fruit and vegetables can be organic. Don't assume the waste is harmless and bin it. Putting it in landfill costs money and it will produce methane (a global warming gas), also it may pollute the groundwater. This waste comprises about 20-30% of your total and the impact is significant.
		Why not make or buy a compost bin? They're usually cheap to buy, and are available in wood or recycled plastic (that might otherwise be in your local landfill site). If you're keen you could combine it with a wormery or use a shredder which increases the amount of compostable waste. Do not compost foods such as dairy produce, meat, bread etc as these attract flies and vermin.
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		Do you think composting is dangerous? It seems the the Environment Agency is concerned and should be formulating 'guidance ' in July 2002 to protect us all. Why not read the story on our Sardonic Chronicle's page?

		If you'd like to have a go at recycling your organic kitchen and garden waste by making it into compost to feed your plants or to use as a mulch, click here for some suggestions, hints and tips including what's good and bad to compost . Below we list some other sources of advice on composting including organisations and web sites, guides and fact sheets. Many local Council web sites also provide advice on home composting.
Advice for Domestic Composting		Garden Organic is the working name of HDRA, Henry Doubleday Research Association, the national charity for organic growing, Europe's largest organic gardening organisation, produces advice leaflets, researches organic horticultural techniques and runs four organic gardens .
		The CAT Tipsheet on Composting says you can create better compost and reduce the amount of rubbish you throw away by composting paper and cardboard. CAT now make a small charge for their Tipsheets .
		Compost Guide gives a comprehensive guide to composting, including why you should make compost, the decomposition process, compost materials, siting, troubleshooting, bins & tumblers, worm composting etc .
		Gardenseeker.com have a section on How to Make a Compost Heap Work - Advice and Information. They give lots of Gardening Advice and Information across a wide range of areas.
		The Good Gardeners Association promotes natural gardening (including 'no digging') to produce wholesome food without use of artificial fertilisers or pesticides. Not composting in the conventional sense, but interesting .
		RecycleNow have a whole section on Home Composting, giving a step by step guide including buying and setting up your bin, making and using your compost and general advice.
		The RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) provide a wealth of gardening advice on their site, including a section on Home Composting, and another on Sustainable Gardening.
		Shropshire Wildlife Trust's site provides information and advice on home composting, as well as on wildlife gardening, bracken compost creation, collection of local wildflower seeds and much more .
		The WasteBook is a joint project commissioned by the Thames Region of the Environment Agency; written, researched and designed by Luton Friends of the Earth; sponsored by Friends of the Earth, BRE, and the Government Offices for the Eastern and Southern Regions and London .
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Bins and Items for Domestic Composting		A wide range of compost bins, accessories and accelerators are readily obtained from garden centres or manufacturers, including these below:
		Archwood Greenhouses, Herefordshire, supply a wide range of quality wooden compost bins and associated accessories throughout the UK.
		The Bin Company provides environmentally beneficial and convenient products for disposal of rubbish both at home and in the office, including composters and wormeries, kitchen and office bins, biodegradable bags .
		Blackwall Products, part of Straight plc, market as evengreener.com, they sell compost tumblers (can produce compost from kitchen/garden waste in about 3 wks), compost and kitchen bins, aerators and other compost & garden products . Unfortunately our personal experience is that their delivery times can be ridiculously long.
		Garden Gourmet Composter: Made from 100% recycled materials, a capacity of 300 litres, with adjustable air vents and easy access to compost at base and composting guide.
		Garotta Compost Maker Aid to making rich, natural compost .
		The Green Cone provides a total solution to recycling of household organic waste. It takes food waste and uses solar heating effect to promote air circulation and enhance naturally occurring aerobic digestion process .
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Bins and Items for Domestic Composting continued		Original Organics sell Compost Bins made from 100% recycled UV treated polyethylene for composting mixed kitchen and garden waste, Bokashi Buckets (for composting food waste, plus a range of wormeries.
		Nowrecycle are suppliers of robust recycling bins, gardening equipment, compost bins and kitchen bins for the environment.
		At RecycleNow you can find out what low-cost / subsidised compost bins and containers etc are available in your area.
		The Recycle Works is dedicated to the supply, design and development of domestic composing equipment, including Wormeries, Composters, Books, Shredders. Their stated main item is their Wooden Modular Compost Bin .
		Roper's Hotterotter, an insulated mulch and compost maker, in two sizes costing about £30 and just over £50 respectively. Roper (Dept. AG5), PO Box 37, Abergavenny, Gwent NP8 9XU. Tel: 01873 840328
		Straight claims to be the UK's leading supplier of home composters; they sell The Compost Machine and you can buy other products on-line .
		Wessex Horticultural Products Ltd is one of the world's leading peat-free compost producers including Coco-Peat©. It is the parent company of:-
		Growing Success, formed before 1990 with the aim of researching, developing and marketing safer pest control products for the UK, that are safer to the environment than traditional chemicals. For more info .
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Advice for Community Composters		Community Composting Network is an organisation providing support, advice and information, including health and safety, throughout the UK to community composters and those considering setting up a scheme .
		Accelerated Compost Ltd make and sell the Rocket(r), developed to provide a small to medium, in-vessel composting system, producing high quality compost in a short time. It comes in 4 sizes, treating food and garden waste in numerous applications, Community Composting operations, prison recycling facilities, National Trust Estates, schools, colleges, universities etc
		Association for Organics Recycling (formerly The Composting Association), the UK’s national composting organisation, is non-profit making, committed to the sustainable management of biodegradable resources, researches and promotes best practice in composting and uses of composts.
		The Green Waste and Composting section of the WasteBook gives advice, plus details on new standards for compost and a list of many organisations providing composting facilities with summary details.
		Living Soil, an organic food waste recycling initiative, provides education, supplies, resources to communities, councils, individuals regarding ecological benefits of separating organic/inorganic waste and of home composting .
		Ridan have produced an all new on-site composter which can process up to 600 lts of food waste per week. They are promoting it to schools, pubs, communities and restaurants hoping to significantly reduce the transportation of food waste to landfill.
		Soil Environment Services, a specialist soil consultancy, states that recycling compostable waste to land is becoming an increasingly viable option commercially for agricultural land and restoration projects; see their Recycling to Land and Composting section.
		Tree Fella provide a green waste recycling facility for local councils from kerbside collection and civic amenity sites as well as trade waste from landscapers and tree surgeons.
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