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As residents get their gardens prepared for spring, Camden Council has joined up with the national campaign Recycle Now to launch a new composting scheme. The scheme aims to encourage residents to compost more at home by offering tips, advice and cheaper compost bins. Home composting is one of the best ways to help the environment on a daily basis and can be incorporated into your regular kitchen and garden habits. A variety of items can go into your compost bin including scrunched up cardboard, teabags, vegetable peelings, grass cuttings and coffee granules. Mike Greene, Executive Member Environment, Camden Council said: "Home composting is a simple and cheap way of dealing with up to a third of a typical family's waste bin, and it is a brilliant way to help the environment. "When organic waste is put into your black bin bag, it gets taken to landfill, where it rots down and produces greenhouse gases. By recycling this waste at home in your compost bin, the same waste breaks down in an environmentally friendly way and provides a free fertiliser for your garden." Philippa Forrester, BBC presenter said: "With three young children, I've never been more aware of the impact we make on the environment and the responsibility of bringing future generations into a world that we can really be proud of. "Composting at home is just one small step towards making sure that we minimise the amount of waste we create, but if everybody gets involved then it makes a huge difference." To promote Compost Awareness Week the Council will be running a range of free events to educate residents about the benefits of home and community composting: - Friday 9 May 2008, 11am-3 pm: Composting information and free seed and plant giveaway, Parliament Hill Fields.
- Saturday 10 May 2008, 11.30 am -1 pm or 2 pm- 3.30pm: Free composting workshops. Get an answer to that question you always wanted to ask, share ideas and experiences and make the most of your compost bin, Dartmouth Park Hill.
To celebrate Compost Awareness Week 2008, Recycle Now is also offering any resident of Camden who buys a compost bin between 4th and 10th May the chance to win £50 of garden centre vouchers. To attend any of the composting events contact David Wilson, david.wilson@camden.gov.uk or 020 7974 3941. For more information about composting visit www.camden.gov.uk/composting |
