South Cerney Compost
Club
Our community Composting Club is now up
and running! We will be making our own ‘home grown’ garden compost, helping
the environment and saving money for members. Our new garden waste
composting site is by the Upper Up car park, behind the recycling
containers.
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Club members will pay an annual fee
of £10. |
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Members may deposit suitable garden
waste, at the open collection bay of the site, at any time. |
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We will need a balanced mixture of
green and brown garden materials, such as grass cuttings and woody
shrubs, to make good compost. |
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Volunteer members will then mix the
garden waste into the composting bins, turning it at regular
intervals. |
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Once the garden waste has been
composted, it will be bagged up and available for collection, free of
charge to members. |
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If you join the Composting Club
instead of paying £30 to CDC for their green wheelie-bin service, CDC
have kindly agreed that you may keep their wheelie-bin for community
composting use. |
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Kitchen waste is not acceptable for
use in a community composting scheme. |
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Cooked kitchen waste should be
recycled using your CDC kitchen caddy. |
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Uncooked kitchen peelings etc should
be composted at home, and the Composting Club aims to encourage that. |
To join the Composting Club, just start by
contributing your garden waste to the Upper Up site. Then email me, or drop
a note with your contact details in the green Composting Club letter box
(beneath the notice board opposite the Post Office). We will collect your
£10 membership fee in due course.
Thank you,
Philip Nicholas
South Cerney Parish Council
philip.nicholas1@googlemail.com
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