Composting at home

If you love whipping up a healthy dinner for you and your family, then how about extending your healthy approach to your garden?

If you use the five-a-day fruit/vegetable principle, then it's likely you'll be creating enough compostable kitchen waste to fill a six-foot fridge freezer every month, all of which can easily be fed to a compost bin to create a healthy garden!

All your vegetable and fruit peelings, teabags, paper towels, eggshells can just be thrown straight into a bowl or kitchen caddy, and when it's full, empty into your compost bin along with your garden waste. Then the compost process begins, and you end up with lovely home-made compost for you to use!

So its not just garden waste that can go into a compost bin. Its easy and cheap to make compost and all you just need to do is follow a few simple steps and there are loads of people now composting, why don't you join them by getting a compost bin and giving it a try! There are great seasonal tips, composting information sheets and trouble shooting tips on the Recycle Now Composting website.

More hints and tips about home composting can also be found on the Recycle for Greater Manchester website.

This page was last updated on 6 April 2011