 New Forest residents are being urged to get their hands dirty during Compost Awareness Week from 1 – 7 May.
Making and using compost at home is simple and hugely beneficial for your kitchen bin and garden. Lots of kitchen and garden waste can be composted, including uncooked fruit and vegetable waste, egg shells, tea bags, old bedding plants and grass cuttings.
Shredded paper and scrunched up cardboard also make great additions to your compost bin.
In a few months, your kitchen and garden waste will be transformed into rich compost for you to use on your garden, hanging baskets, patio containers and window boxes.
Hampshire residents can buy low-cost compost bins and other useful items for the garden by visiting www.hants.getcomposting.com
If you don’t have the space for a compost bin in your garden, then your garden waste (no food waste please) can be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) or collected through New Forest District Council’s Garden Waste Collection Scheme.
All garden waste collected through the HWRC or the Garden Waste Collection Scheme is taken to a Hampshire composting site and turned in Pro-Grow, a high grade soil conditioner available to buy from the HWRCs.
However you recycle your garden waste, whether it’s done at home or at the HWRC, you’ll be helping to reduce the amount of waste going for final disposal in Hampshire while helping your plants to grow.
More details on the locations and opening times of HWRCs, the Garden Waste Collection Scheme and home composting tips can be found at www.newforest.gov.uk/recyclingandrubbish
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