Compost bins and home composting
Composting is nature's way of recycling and can reduce your household refuse by up to 30%.
You have several options for composting :
- Composting at home in your garden compost bin
- Composting your garden waste with a garden waste wheelie bin or at household waste recycling sites
- Food waste bins / Food waste digesters
Composting at home in your garden compost bin
You can use a compost bin (or composter) in your garden for your garden waste (eg, grass cuttings, weeds, dead cut flowers and plants, fallen leaves, hedge clippings, etc) and uncooked fruit or vegetables and their peelings from your kitchen.
Buying a compost bin
Adur & Worthing Council Services , working in partnership with West Sussex County Council have teamed up with Evengreener.com to offer you quality compost bins at subsidised prices. To view their fantastic range of low cost compost bins and other accessories please visit www.getcomposting.com or call Evengreener on 0844 571 4444 for more details.
How to compost
For more information about home composting see the Recycle for West Sussex website 
or Recycle Now website (home composting) (which also has an animation to show what actually goes on during the decomposition process inside the bin) or the Recycle Now website (compost) .
See also : WSCC website : Advice on waste prevention
Please note
- You cannot put food waste in a compost bin, for what you can do with that please see Food waste bins / Food waste digesters.
- That you should not compost Japanese Knotweed.
Composting your garden waste with a garden waste wheelie bin or at household waste recycling sites
To dispose of your your garden waste (eg, grass cuttings, weeds, dead cut flowers and plants, fallen leaves, hedge clippings, etc) you can use the wheelie bin kerbside green waste collection scheme, or take your household garden waste along to a household waste recycling site.
From these it is taken to a composting facility where it recycled into 'Reclaim organic soil conditioner'. This is then bagged and made available for sale in 40 litre bags at the household waste recycling sites across West Sussex - except for the East Grinstead site (see WSCC website for details of the household waste recycling site locations ).
'Reclaim organic soil conditioner' is ideal for potting, planting, flower bed and border preparation and maintenance, and lawn construction. It improves soil drainage, workability & structure, increases water holding capacity of soils (minimising watering requirements), assists root development and provides slower nutrient release - so the benefits last longer. It is a 100% recycled product produced in West Sussex, is peat free and contains no artificial chemicals.
For more information about 'Reclaim organic soil conditioner' see the Recycle for West Sussex website .
Please note
- You must not include uncooked vegetable and fruit peelings or other food products in with the items you put in wheelie bin kerbside green waste collections scheme or take for composting at household waste recycling sites, but they can go in your garden compost bin.
- You cannot put food waste in a green waste wheelie bin, for what you can do with that please see Food waste bins / Food waste digesters.
- That you should not compost Japanese Knotweed.
Food waste bins / Food waste digesters
Cooked and uncooked food waste including meat, fish, bones and dairy products (and cooked fruit or vegetables) cannot be put into compost bins or your green waste wheelie bin.
However you can get food waste bins or food waste digesters that you can put in your garden that will take all food waste including meat, bones and dairy products.
For more details on the two types of food waste bins that are available, how they work and how to install one of them please see the WSCC website : Advice on waste prevention .
Regular uncooked fruit or vegetables and their peelings (but not other food waste) can go in your garden compost bin.
See also : Green Cone website
Last Updated : Friday, June 24, 2011 (15:47)
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