Residents and children in East Sussex will be shown the benefits of composting by the county council’s Rethink Rubbish Team, who will tour the area with their Rethink Rubbish exhibition bus. Highlights include:
- Highfield Junior School, Eastbourne – 3 May. Pupils will take part in a day of composting activities which will include visiting the bus and performing a play. This will take place between 10am – 2.30pm.
- The Rethink Rubbish exhibition bus will be at Wealden District Council offices, Hailsham – 6 May.
- Composting workshops will be held at the Lewes Organic Allotment Project, Highdown Road, Lewes, on Wednesday 4 May at 10.30am and Saturday 7 May at 2.30pm.
Up to one-third of the average dustbin contents can be composted – this is organic matter, largely green garden and food waste. Compost bins can also turn cardboard and paper into compost which can make up another third of a householders waste.
To celebrate Compost Awareness Week, the county council is offering Wormeries and Food Waste Digester Units to residents at a fraction of the usual price. These are rodent proof natural systems that reduce all food waste including cooked food, and are proven to stop smells.
People can find out more about these and other environmental issues on East Sussex County Council’s website at: http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/environment/.
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For further information contact the Rethink Rubbish Team on: 01273 482323.
Compost Units – Takes kitchen scraps, garden waste, cardboard and paper. These are ideal for most households particularly those who do not throw much cooked food away and who do lots of gardening. Only £15 (RRP £49.95).
Wormeries – Complete kit for £35 including delivery (RRP £59.95). Anything that has lived and died can be composted by the worms. Soft organic waste like vegetable peelings, tea leaves, coffee grounds and stale bread are ideal. The worms produce useful compost for pot plants and a liquid plant food. Call Blackwall Ltd on 0870 844 3000 to order your wormery.
Green Cones – Takes meat, fish, bones, diary products, vegetables and fruit food waste and reduces it to its natural components with a very small residue. This is a food waste digesting system, not a garden composter. Call 0800 013 1304 to order the system for £24.95 (RRP £59.95) and collect from a local garden centre. Alternatively have it delivered for £34.95.
Green Johanna’s – Developed in Sweden this system takes all food waste plus green garden waste and produces compost. Call 0870 4603627 to order the kit for £41.00 (RRP £75) and collect from a local garden centre. Alternatively have it delivered for £46.
Reference:
05/167/MF
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