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Composting at home is one of the best things you can do for the environment! It's certainly the most environmentally friendly and cost effective way of dealing with your garden waste. It also makes 
nutrient rich compost you can put back into your garden.
You can get a reduced price home composter by visiting |the recycle now website or calling 0845 0770757 (quote ref: HCA2).
The key to a healthy compost heap is to keep a good mix of green and brown materials, and stir regularly. There are lots of everyday items that you can add to your compost such as:
| Green materials | Brown materials |
|---|---|
| Grass clippings | Shredded prunings |
| Garden prunings | Cereal boxes |
| Nettles | Toilet & kitchen roll tubes |
| Tea bags | Egg boxes |
| Young annual weeds (e.g.chickweed & speedwell) | Ashes from wood, paper or lumpwood charcoal |
| Fruit & vegetable peelings | Tumble dryer lint (from natural fibre clothes) |
| Old flowers | Corn cobs and stalks |
| Ground coffee & filter paper | Cotton threads |
| Pond algae & seaweed (in moderation) | Torn up cardboard |
| Weeds | Wool |
| Spent bedding plants | String (made from natural fibres) |
| Comfrey leaves | Egg shells |
| Rhubarb leaves | Pine needles and cones (slow to compost so don't put too much in) |
| Old natural fibres (e.g. woolly jumpers or cotton t-shirts cut into small pieces) | |
| Dry leaves, twigs and hedge clippings | |
| Newspaper (scrunched up) | |
| Shredded paper | |
| Woody clippings | |
| Garden prunings | |
| Feathers | |
| Tissues, paper towels and napkins (unless they have been in contact with meat, fats, oils or disease) |
Too wet or unpleasant smells?
Too dry?
Attracting flies and vermin?
Please remember, you need some insect activity in your compost heap!
Slow decomposition?
Take your garden waste to be composted at a |recycling centre.
Subscribe for our |garden waste collection serviceand we'll compost your garden waste every fortnight.