Plus if you don't home compost you have to buy in more plastic-bagged compost from the garden centre and no one recycles compost bags yet. If you're an open-heap composter too you create a haven for local wildlife. Does the council facility incubate snake eggs and bumblebee nests?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Compost heaps, successful ones, are full of oxygen.
Thats the problem, thats what creates the methane. Council processes compost in the absence of oxygen.
Methane-producing bacteria cannot grow in an oxygen environment, but other bacteria can use the oxygen, converting it to CO2. Without oxygen there can obviously be no CO2 production, so methane is produced instead.
Our council does it different: we pay £1.50 each for the garden waste bags, but the collection is free until the bag falls to bits and you have to buy a new one. They are talking about charging for the collection but I don't see how. They'd have to put a microchip in each bag and a scanner in each lorry, otherwise what's to stop my neighbour putting his bags in front of my house? On the plus side, it might encourage more home composting. We're all gardeners on my side of the street, and we all put out green bags, but I think I'm the only home composter. I put more in the green bags than I used to, having learnt the hard way which weeds come back to haunt me if I compost them.
I think I feel a poll coming on: would you pay for a garden waste collection? how much?
That’s it then, don't buy compost in plastic bags, don’t make you’re own, don’t have ponds, don’t eat meat, don’t fart, don't go on an earoplane, don’t go on a ship, Don't take your car out, don’t put your heating on, don’t buy anything with batteries, I’ve said this before, The only true greenie is a dead one.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Our council does it different: we pay £1.50 each for the garden waste bags, but the collection is free until the bag falls to bits and you have to buy a new one.
The hidden bonus of living in a windy part of the world is that green waste bags are readily available sticking out of most hedgerows and ditches. The bin men are pretty good about throwing the bags back onto your drive but if it's not nailed down around here then it blows away at some point. The bags are free though so people just keep ordering new ones.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
It is strange that there are so many different systems around the country with green waste collection being free in some areas but attracting a fee in others. In this area it all goes to be composted along with food waste.
Sometimes they chuck the food waste in with the garden stuff and sometimes they don't. I suspect it all gets mixed in the depot. Does anyone know if it's ok to put a paper towel covered in/containing food waste into the food bin? They say it's ok to wrap stuff in newspaper if you havent got compost bags.
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Id happily have the council take all the ‘waste’ if that’s the science and they returned me decent compost, but paying at both ends doesn’t appeal.
I think I feel a poll coming on: would you pay for a garden waste collection? how much?
Does anyone know if it's ok to put a paper towel covered in/containing food waste into the food bin? They say it's ok to wrap stuff in newspaper if you havent got compost bags.