Home Composting

Why Compost?

Composting at home is a great environmentally friendly way of disposing of your garden and kitchen waste. It helps to reduce the amount of rubbish going to landfill, saves trips to the local tip with your grass cuttings and provides free food for your garden.

What can you compost?

• Vegetable peelings and fruit scraps
• Tea bag/leaves and coffee grounds
• Annual plant and flowers
• Crushed eggshells
• Young hedge clippings
• Old perennial plants
• Straw and hay
• Cardboard egg boxes
• Wood chippings and sawdust
• Shredded paper and Scrunched up cardboard
• Grass Cuttings
• Wood prunings and Leaves

What Happens Inside Your Compost Bin?

Follow the link below for an animation explaining what processes occur in your compost bin:

• Recycle Now's Inside Your Compost Bin web page

Where can you get a compost bin from?

Babergh District Council has teamed up with the other Suffolk councils and is now offering compost bins at extremely low prices – starting at just £14 plus £5 delivey!  Whatever the size of your garden, there is a bin available to suit!
Choose from:

• The 220 litre Blackwall Compost Converter. Priced at just £14 plus £5 delivery 
• The 330 litre Blackwall Compost Converter. Priced at just £17 plus £5 delivery 

Select the following link to order these bins and additional range (wormery, water butt, kitchen caddy, etc) online:

• http://www.suffolk.getcomposting.com/ 

Alternatively, call the public order line on 0844 571 4444.

Subsidised water butts are also available from Anglian Water on 0845 130 85 85

• Buy water butts

Where can I get more information?

• Further composting information web page on the Suffolk Recycling website or the Recycle Now website
• alternatively ring the Recycle Now Compost helpline on 0845 600 0323 (Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm, Sat 9am to 1pm)

Compost…. the possibilities are endless.