Heaps of Compost for FREE
Lancashire County Council and Fylde Borough Council are giving away 12 tonnes of compost made of recycled garden waste collected for recycling in Lancashire.
Compost in a soneones hand
To celebrate National Allotment week and say thank you to some of the thousands of people across the county who regularly compost their garden waste.
People can turn up to collect compost in Fylde on Wednesday 12th August between 10am-2pm at St Paul's Avenue Car Park, Fairhaven Lake, Lytham St Annes. All that is asked is that you bring your own bags to collect the compost, which will be limited to 2 bags per person.
But that's not all – FREE compost bins are still available for all householders in Lancashire until the end of September. Find out how to order your bin at the event and get some great advice on how to get started from the Compost Gurus.
The compost is being supplied by SITA UK who take over 50,000 tonnes of people’s garden rubbish across Lancashire and turn it into compost each year. This is collected at the county’s network of Household Waste Recycling Centres and through the kerbside collection of garden waste.
Councillor David Eaves, Cabinet Member for Environmental Wellbeing at Fylde Borough Council, said: “Using this kind of compost is the next best thing to making your own at home and it offers a double bonus for the environment. It saves buying peat-based composts which are collected from delicate natural environments. Also, composting is a safe natural treatment for waste such as grass cuttings and wood.”
Composting at home is one of the best ways to help the environment by turning rubbish, including fruit and vegetable peelings, grass cuttings and even paper and card into garden compost.
For the last eight years Lancashire has been amongst the most active areas in the UK for home composting with over 170,000 compost bins given to residents through the Lancashire Home Composting project. This has helped us to reduce the amount of rubbish we send to landfill by over 100,000 tonnes a year.
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