Rarely have rubbish but if I do it just goes in the washing up bowl with rest. Our rubbish is emptied once a fortnight, I missed it last week so it will be a month before collection, only have one small bag a fortnight so it’s in the garage away from foxes
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I must admit I do manage to fill both the black and recycled bins in two weeks. But we dont have separate food or cardboard or glass collection. The green bin I could fill every week if I tried( its every two weeks)
I have to admit to having conflicting thoughts about home composting now. Went to a (deliberately) provocative talk at HC flower show, where the Chief Scientist at the RHS came out as an anti-home composter. The reason they don’t like green waste going to landfill is that when it decomposes it creates methane (much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2). Mr RHS argued that home composting on a small domestic scale creates just as much methane. Whereas green waste composting on a council size scale is done in controlled (anaerobic) conditions, that stop waste gases being produced. So should we ALL be sending our green waste to council facilities ?
Still have my compost heap, and there’s something about the transport emissions of collecting it all then redistributing it as soil improver ...... but it did get me thinking 🤔
Methane and CO2 (biogases) are produced from anaerobic decomposition. Hence anaerobic digesters being used on farms and other facilities to fuel CHP. Proper home composting and facility composting by windrow and IVC methodologies i.e. with sufficient air circulation is aerobic.
I did some work for a guy who designed the finishing work for landfill sites before they get restored to nature reserves and the like. He reckoned that the companies had invested heavily in methane capture systems for energy production but the increased food waste recycling was really reducing the amount of gas they could collect.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Our council introduced a charge for garden waste recently. On the eve of the charge coming into effect I caught someone flytipping garden waste and have since caught them again twice.
I wonder how this will affect the C/N ration of the composting facility and the production of PAS100. Particulates from bonfires? (woody waste was usually burned on site or sent to landfill before collections, rarely composted)
Waste collection is the one service everyone wants from their council in the absence of domestic waste collection on the free market Our region's local composting facility has the largest plant in Europe and the second largest in the world as at 2016 47,829 Tonnes food and garden waste (IVC with forced air) 16,856 Tonnes green waste (from arbs, gardening firms, civils clearances) windrows I guess most of that near 50kT was garden waste.
Hilarious, I love the comments, Make America rake again. We used to have loads of leaves in this garden, bordered by huge old beech trees, my dad never raked them. They’d cover the borders and the lawn, by the flowing year they’d be gone, somewhere, but he laughed at me when I was out there raking them, he asked if I had all the wintertime on my hands, because the same amount will be back tomorrow. I’ve had the trees lopped a bit now for safety so not quite so bad, but they really do seem to disappear .
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Our rubbish is emptied once a fortnight, I missed it last week so it will be a month before collection, only have one small bag a fortnight so it’s in the garage away from foxes
Proper home composting and facility composting by windrow and IVC methodologies i.e. with sufficient air circulation is aerobic.
On the eve of the charge coming into effect I caught someone flytipping garden waste and have since caught them again twice.
I wonder how this will affect the C/N ration of the composting facility and the production of PAS100. Particulates from bonfires? (woody waste was usually burned on site or sent to landfill before collections, rarely composted)
Waste collection is the one service everyone wants from their council in the absence of domestic waste collection on the free market
Our region's local composting facility has the largest plant in Europe and the second largest in the world as at 2016
47,829 Tonnes food and garden waste (IVC with forced air)
16,856 Tonnes green waste (from arbs, gardening firms, civils clearances) windrows
I guess most of that near 50kT was garden waste.
We used to have loads of leaves in this garden, bordered by huge old beech trees, my dad never raked them. They’d cover the borders and the lawn, by the flowing year they’d be gone, somewhere, but he laughed at me when I was out there raking them, he asked if I had all the wintertime on my hands, because the same amount will be back tomorrow.
I’ve had the trees lopped a bit now for safety so not quite so bad, but they really do seem to disappear .