Composting means allowing organic material to rot down naturally into a crumbly brown, fresh smelling product.

Your kitchen and garden waste can easily be recycled into a precious natural resource - a rich and fertile food for your soil that will also encourage wildlife into your garden. Let's not waste it!

"Did you know? If everyone in Gloucestershire made their own compost, there would be 10,000 fewer bin rounds on the road each year!"

What happens to our waste?
Organic waste materials, like vegetable peelings and garden cuttings do not rot down as you may think when it is put into landfill. There is not enough oxygen to start the rotting process and so it ferments, producing environmentally harmful substances like methane (the harmful greenhouse gas) and leachate (a nasty toxic slime).

Landfill sites are now managed to a very high environmental standard but common sense says that we shouldn’t be throwing away this organic waste.

Although the kerbside collection of garden waste is certainly a better option than putting it in landfill, composting at home is a better solution to reduce the amount of waste going into landfill and guarantees free compost for life!