Home compost bin offer

Low priced home compost bin offer for Aylesbury Vale residents

Bucks Home Composter Scheme 2008

Composting can help to turn organic kitchen and garden waste into fertile compost for the garden, cutting the amount of green waste that we send to landfill unnecessarily, and reducing our need for shop-bought compost.

AVDC support a county-wide scheme that promotes composting and provides composters to local residents at a discounted price. Composters of different sizes are available through the scheme to cater for different household requirements.  Prices start at just £8 and they are delivered free to your door. Click here for more information about the Home compost bin offer or see below to download the application form.

What to Compost?

Almost a third of the contents of your bin can be composted - give it a go! Composters take organic kitchen and garden waste and recycle them into valuable, nutritious compost that is ideal for use in gardens as a soil improver and fertiliser to encourage healthy plants and blooming flowers. Best results are produced by a mixture of of the following:

• Annual weeds - be careful with persistent weeds such as nettles, thistles and doc
• Chopped garden pruning
• Dead flowers
• Grass cuttings
• Hay and straw
• Leaves
• Sawdust
• Shredded paper
• Tea bags, leaves and coffee grounds
• Torn cardboard and toilet roll inners
• Vegetable and fruit scraps

Feeding your compost bin is easy - you can use a wide variety of kitchen waste ('greens'), such as fruit and vegetable peelings, tea bags, eggshells, and coffee grounds. Supplement this with garden waste such as cuttings and dry leaves, and a mixture of 'browns' (for example, scrunched up card and paper) and you'll have the perfect recipe for compost.

Do not put any of the following items into your compost bin: meat and fish scraps, cooked food scraps, diseased plants, persistent weeds, coal ash, large woody branches, bones, dairy products.

Getting into a simple routine of composting and getting the "mix" right for perfect compost is easy, and advice is always at hand from the Home Composting Helpline on 0845 077 0757 or contact AVDC's Recycling Officer on 01296 585862.

Your compost will be ready between six and nine months after you start composting. So by the time autumn rolls around again, anyone who started their compost bin in January or February can expect to begin to reap the benefits - free, plant-nutritious compost that will make your garden grow beautifully whilst slimming your rubbish bin and, ultimately, cutting down the amount of waste ending up in British landfill sites.

Click on the link below for details of the available composters. Your bin will delivered free of charge, together with a free guide to composting and access to information and advice.

Date Updated: 18/07/08

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