The council is offering a new range of home recycling systems at special prices from 1st April 2010.
The systems include two sizes of home composter, a kitchen composter for kitchen scraps, wormeries for food waste, and accessories. The offers include a buy-one-get-one-half price on the home composters.
Councillor Stephen Parnaby, OBE, leader of the council, said: “Food waste is a problem for the East Riding. In the checks we undertook in July on the waste in the green bins, 2.5kg in each bin was food. Managing food waste is a challenge facing the whole of the UK, with one bag of shopping in every three being thrown away.”
Additionally, the first 200 buyers of the 45 litre or 70 litre wormeries can buy them at the lower prices of £24 and £53. The basic 45 litre wormery is perfect for small households.
The systems come with full instructions and produce good quality compost and plant food from the digested food waste.
The scheme is one of the council’s initiatives to help residents divert waste from landfill. It is being offered in partnership with Straight plc, a recycling company.
The council is also offering a 100 litre mini rainsaver kit at £27.95 and a 190 litre rainsaver kit at £37.95 to help conserve water.
Why compost?
Composting provides a way of reducing the amount of waste that goes to landfill. Composting also provides a product that is useful for gardening, landscaping, or house plants.
As plants grow they remove nutrients from the soil. In nature this nutrient is replaced in the natural cycle of decaying organic matter. This layer of rich top-soil (which is so beneficial for our plants) is called humus.
In our gardens, however, we interrupt this cycle by removing unwanted organic matter (e.g. pruning, mowing our lawns and disposing of dead leaves). Without replacing this nutrient we can make the soil barren and infertile to all but the hardiest plant, leading often to the use of chemical fertilisers and feeds.
An excellent alternative, while keeping your garden tidy, is home composting of garden and organic household waste.
Organic waste can form up to a third of our weekly rubbish. This goes straight to landfill, fermenting and producing large quantities of the greenhouse gas, methane.
For information on how to make your own compost bin please see leaflet below
Building a composter
Where do I find the Council's home waste system offers?
In partnership with the council, Straight Recycling plc are offering the following home composters, wormeries, water butts and accessories:
220 litre home composter £14.00 Buy one get one half price
330 litre home composter £17.00 Buy one get one half price
Composter base (optional) £10.00
5 litre compost-a-bag £3.50 3 rolls for the price of 2
5 litre Kitchen caddy £4.00
Caddy Liners - 25 bags £3.50
Kitchen composter twin pack £25
Can-O-Worms Basic Value Pack 45 litre £49.00*
Can-O-Worms Value Pack 70 litre £78.00*
Rainsaver Water Butt Kit 190 litre £37.95
Mini Rainsaver Kit 100 litre £27.95
*The first 200 wormeries will be given a £25 subsidy; the 45 litre can-o-worms will be sold at £24.00 and the 70 litre Can-o-worms will be sold at £53.00. Prices will resume to normal after the first 200 have been sold.
Delivery charge is £5 for upto 3 items.
The offers are available until 31st March 2011 through Straight Recycling plc on (0845) 1306090 or visit www.eastriding.getcomposting.com
Household Waste Recycling Sites
Green waste can be disposed of at all the household waste recycling sites in the East Riding of Yorkshire Council area. We provide a range of facilities to help to ensure that as much household waste material as possible is recycled. Facilities are also provided for the proper disposal of other household rubbish. The sites are operated by Waste Recycling Group on behalf of the council - at the following locations.
Find out where your local sites are.
Further information
For further information on what facilities are available in your area please contact :
Sarah White
East Riding of Yorkshire Council
sarah.white@eastriding.gov.uk
01482 395586
Community composting
Community composting is the composting of biodegradable green waste by a number of residents from the local community at a local communal site. East Riding of Yorkshire Council is very to keen to help set up community composting schemes. It is a preferred way of disposing of green waste.
A constituted community composting group which diverts household green waste from landfill will be given a payment per tonne of material collected, then an additional payment if they compost the material at their own site. This payment is known as a Community Composting Credit.
