Buy
a Bin and Win This Compost Awareness
Week
To
celebrate Compost Awareness Week
2008, Recycle Now is offering
any resident of Gloucestershire
who buys a compost bin between
4th and 10th May the chance to
win £50 of garden centre
vouchers to spend on their garden.
Compost
Awareness Week is designed to
encourage everyone to ‘Green
up the Environment’. We can
all help the planet and keep our
gardens in bloom - by home composting
our kitchen and garden waste or
using peat-free composts containing
recycled materials.
Home
Composting is a simple and cheap
way of dealing with up to a third
of a typical family’s
waste bin, and it is a brilliant
way to help the environment.
When
organic garden and food waste
is sent to landfill, it is crushed
beneath large amounts of other
household waste. This means there
isn’t any oxygen present
when it breaks down, so it produces
methane, a powerful greenhouse
gas that contributes to global
warming. By composting at home,
waste such as fruit and vegetable
peelings can break down in an oxygenated
environment so no methane is produced. This
also creates a rich fertilizer
for the garden which completes
the natural cycle and keeps waste
out of landfill.
And
it’s not just fruit
and vegetable peelings that you
can compost – toilet roll
tubes, coffee grounds, tea bags,
and egg boxes will all add nutrients
to the mix. Almost anything organic
can be composted, from shredded
confidential documents and scrunched
up cereal boxes to grass cuttings. All
this waste breaks down naturally
to create a free product that can
be used to keep plants and gardens
looking green and beautiful – and
it even helps the soil to retain
moisture, which is particularly
good news during the hot summer
months.
Anyone
living in Gloucestershire who
places an order from the 4th – 10th
May 2008 will be entered into the
free prize draw to win £50
of garden centre vouchers, which
have been donated by DHL, the logistics
company that deliver the bins.
For more information about Compost
Awareness Week Events in Gloucestershire
please visit this
page.
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