Use your brown bin during Compost Awareness Week

COUNCILS within the arc21 Waste Management group which include Ballymena Borough Council are encouraging residents to use their brown bin to recycle their food and garden waste as part of Compost Awareness Week May 6-12.
By The Newsroom
Published 2nd May 2013, 13:55 BST

Compost Awareness Week is a week-long initiative to promote the benefits of composting food and garden waste rather than throwing this material in your black bin.

It’s important to try and keep as much food and garden waste out of landfill because it as this material rots down in a landfill site it creates methane gas - a powerful greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Choosing to compost your food and garden waste helps to cut down on the amount sent to landfill. By composting your food and garden waste in your brown bin or your own home composter you can turn it into rich compost which can be fed back to your house or garden plants.

During Compost Awareness Week Ballymena Borough Council will be giving away free bags of compost (made from food and garden waste collected from households within the area). Tree planting using compost made from the contents of brown bins from the Ballymena area will also take place.

Recycling Officer Gary McKnight of Ballymena Borough Council said: “It’s vital that everyone within the borough does all they can to reduce the amount of food and garden waste going to landfill. Using your brown bin to recycle food and garden waste within Ballymena is easy! Simply put your unwanted food and garden waste into the brown bin – the Council will empty your bin on a fortnightly basis and send the contents to a special processor for composting. I would urge as many people as possible to attend the Civic Amenity site at Pennybridge Industrial Estate to pick up a free bag of compost for use in their home.”

Compostable bags for the collection of food waste are free for residents within the Ballymena Borough. You can collect more bags from the Pennybridge CA Site. Alternatively, attach your red tag to the handle of your brown bin and the Council will leave you more bags.

To find out more about recycling and composting in Ballymena including what you can recycle and where to recycle, please visit http://www.ballymena.gov.uk/recycling.asp

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