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.
· Members may deposit suitable garden waste, at the open collection bay of the site, at any time.
· We will need a balanced mixture of green and brown garden materials, such as grass cuttings and woody shrubs, to make good compost.
· Volunteer members will then mix the garden waste into the composting bins, turning it at regular intervals.
· Once the garden waste has been composted, it will be bagged up and available for collection, free of charge to members.
· 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.
· Kitchen waste is not acceptable for use in a community composting scheme.
· Cooked kitchen waste should be recycled using your CDC kitchen caddy.
· 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