Composting at home

What is compost?

• Compost is a rich, dark soil-like material you can produce by mixing together natural produce such as unwanted garden material and organic kitchen waste. 

• It acts a s a naturel fertiliser and is full of nutrients to use on your garden.

Why compost?

• Collecting and disposing of food and garden waste as rubbish is expensive and time consuming.

• Greenhouse gases such as methane are produced if food and garden waste are compressed without air in a landfill.

• Composting at home, where air can reach your food and garden waste as it breaks down, significantly minimises the amount of methane produced.

The council offers a subsidy for compost bins and wormeries. Visit Get Composting website for more information.

How to compost

Follow this link for a home composting step by step guide.