Composting at Home
You may not have realised but up to 20% of household rubbish is kitchen and garden waste and this can easily be turned into compost at home.Making your own compost is a great way helping the environment and reducing the amount that goes in your rubbish bin.
Materials that you can compost include: fruit and vegetable waste, tea bags egg shells, grass cuttings, hedge & shrub clippings and old plants and flowers.
The Vale of Glamorgan council are working in partnership with the Wales Environment Trust and Straight Recycling Systems and offer a discounted price on compost bins. These are available to all Vale residents priced from £12.50. Please call Straight Recycling on 0845 130 60 90 for further details.
If you can't compost at home, you can take your garden waste to the civic amenity site at Hayes Road Sully or Llandow Trading Estate, Llandow for composting.
Hints & Tips for successful composting
As the composting mass is relatively moist, it will condense, reducing the amount of air in it. Regular poking or stirring with a stick or garden fork will create ventilation channels in the material, helping the composting process. Place your compost bin on soil - this enables the worms to get in! What can be composted?- Vegetable & fruit waste, peelings etc
- Grass cuttings
- Hedge clippings
- Weeds
- Old plants & garden cuttings
- Fallen leaves
- Tea bags
- Crushed egg shells
- Cut flowers & house plant remains
- Meat
- Cooked food
- Cat & Dog faeces
- Garden waste that has recently been treated with weed-killer (such as grass cuttings from a recently treated lawn).
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