Residents of the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough are being offered the chance to take their food and garden waste recycling to a whole new level.

To celebrate this year’s Compost Awareness Week, the council is hosting a competition with home composting bins, bags of compost and a composting guide up for grabs.

Compost Awareness Week (Sunday, May 3 to Saturday, May 9) is an important opportunity to highlight why everyone should be recycling food and compostable garden waste and maximising the use of brown bins.

The council has produced a video in partnership with Natural World Products and Donaghcloney’s Walter Ferris, to show the process of how food waste is transformed into nutrient-rich compost.

Lord Mayor, Ald Stephen Moutray and Caroline Magill, Environmental Education Officer launch the competition for the composting prizes. Picture: ABC Borough Council

placeholder image — Lord Mayor, Ald Stephen Moutray and Caroline Magill, Environmental Education Officer launch the competition for the composting prizes. Picture: ABC Borough Council

To help inspire more people to get involved, ABC Council is offering residents the chance to win one of 10 prizes of a home composting bin, two bags of compost and a composting guide.

All you have to do is watch the video published on the council’s Facebook page, and name the five items (highlighted in the video) which can be composted in the brown bin.

Thanks to the efforts of local people, thousands of tonnes of food and garden waste is recycled into quality compost each year by Natural World Products, which is used in horticulture and to help grow local food produce.

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Lord Mayor of ABC Borough, Alderman Stephen Moutray said: “At this time of year, many of our residents are busy cutting grass and looking after their gardens so it’s a good time to show just what happens to our compostable garden and food waste which goes into the brown bins.

"It’s very rewarding to see that the recycling efforts of our residents helps to produce this wonderful compost. And this year, we are giving 10 local people the chance to have a go at composting at home, by winning one of our home composting bins, as well as the bags of compost.”

To enter the competition, watch the video and send your answers along with your name, address, contact telephone number and email address to: [email protected]

Entries will close on Monday, May 11 at midnight.

Entrants must reside within the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough. To find out more about recycling in the home, you can download the ABC App by visiting - https://www.armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk/abc-council-app/