Residents on Anglesey are being encouraged to take up home composting this spring with a chance to collect a free compost bin.
The Isle of Anglesey County Council Waste Management Section, in partnership with the Holyhead and Anglesey Mail, is to giveaway 1,000 compost bins to the gardeners of Anglesey.
Composting is nature’s way of recycling and can help to reduce the amount of waste in our black bin that goes to landfill. It also provides a free source of compost that can be used to enrich boarders, vegetable patches, feed the lawn or for patio containers.
“We’re already achieving 50 per cent recycling and composting rates thanks to the support of householders on Anglesey,” says Cllr Bob Parry OBE, the Council’s Environmental Portfolio Holder, “But we can still do a lot in order to dispose of waste more sustainably and home composting could contribute to achieving this.”
To qualify for a free compost bin you need to live on Anglesey and be one of the first 1,000 to return the completed form, which you can download and print off at the bottom of this page. If you are successful you will receive a receipt; bring this on the specified time and day to the Library Car Park, Mill Street, Llangefni with proof of address.
The compost bins giveaway will be on 22 – 24 March 2010, so get your form in as soon as possible.
Jonathan Eastwood – Isle of Anglesey County Council’s Principal Waste Management Officer adds, “Spring is a great time to start home composting, and is a great way to reduce, reuse and recycle.”
All households on Anglesey have the following recycling and waste collection services: recycling in the red and blue boxes, garden waste in the green wheelie bin, household waste for landfill in the black wheelie bin.
From the beginning of April the food waste collection service is being extended and rolled out across the Island.
“In April more households will have the food waste collected, but we can start or continue to home compost as well,” says Jon.
