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:
Where can you get a compost bin from?
Babergh District Council has teamed up with the other Suffolk councils and is now offering three sizes of compost bins at extremely low prices – starting at just £12 plus £5 delivey! Up to 2 bins can be ordered per Suffolk household. Whatever the size of your garden, there is a bin available to suit!
Choose from:
- The 220 litre Blackwall Compost Converter. Priced at just £12 plus £5 delivery
- The 330 litre Blackwall Compost Converter. Priced at just £15 plus £5 delivery
- The 320 litre KOMP Composter. Priced at just £43 plus £5 delivery
Customers ordering through any methiod can order a kitchen caddy at the subsidised price of £4 (1 caddy per household).
For a postal application, select the following link, print off and send in your order:
Alternatively, call 0845 076 0223 (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, out of hours will be directed to a voicemail service and orders will be process the next working day) quoting SHOE9, or, to order these bins and additional range online, select the following link on the Recycle Now website:
Compost accessories (caddy liners, aerators etc) can be ordered online via the website:
Subsidised water butts are available from Anglian Water on 0845 130 85 85
Where can I get more information?
Details on the ‘special offer’ compost bins can also be found on the Suffolk Recycle webiste via the link below or by telephoning the Refuse Hotline 0845 6066045 (Local Rate Call) and requesting an information leaflet.
Compost…. the possibilities are endless.
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