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Pledge “kitchencompost”

"I will compost all of my kitchen waste but only if 20 people will do the same."

— Paul Snookes, Resident of Worcester (contact)

Deadline to sign up by: 14^th July 2005
35 people signed up (15 over target)

Country: United Kingdom

More details
Contact your local council. They will have REALLY cheap compost bins compared to the commercial ones.

Here are some useful links for you:
How to make compost: http://www.hdra.org.uk/organicgardening/...

UK Government web page about composting: http://www.direct.gov.uk/HomeAndCommunit...

Nice pdf file explaining how to compost in simple terms:
http://www.compostworks.org.uk/howtocomp...

Comments on this pledge

• Good pledge! I already compost most things, but I'll be extra-careful from now on.
  Michael G. R., 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Thanks for the feedback, Michael. Much appeciated. Just as a matter of interest, do you also compost things like cardboard egg cartons, newspaper etc?
  Paul Snookes, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Good idea - been talking about the very thing for ages. The council takes cardboard, paper, plastic, tins and cans but not garden waste. This will finally spur me into action!
  Stuart C, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I already do most compost most of my kitchen waste - well worms do anyway. Makes excellent fertiliser for the garden.
  Brad Macpherson, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I just got a nice big prefab composter from my local Freecycle list and I'm very excited. I'm not sure I want to try to compost things that aren't organic though. I do try to buy as much organic food as possible, but sometimes I cave in and get the non-organic stuff and hope it's not too terrible.
  Turil Cronburg, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Turil, I often wonder about using non-organic stuff too. One option is to ask neighbour's and friends who don't use pesticides in their gardens to give you their garden waste.
  
  Hope that helps.
  Paul Snookes, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Paul,
  
  Paper and cardboard, I recycle, but I do compost paper towels and clothe-dryer lint and things like that.
  Michael G. R., 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Turil, from my point of view I'd rather have a bit of non-organic things in my compost than have it in the waste cycle up to the landfill where it won't do any good at all except release methane.
  Michael G. R., 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• We're quite fortunate where we live; I have my own compost bin, but the council also gives us two big brown paper bags each week for garden and kitchen waste which can be composted; they shred it, so we can give them larger things than I can successfully compost at home - this includes cardboard. (One of last week's bags even contained a whole shrub I had dug up.) The resulting compost can then be bought back from the council for pennies, which is good news, because I can't produce sufficient compost for my whole garden in my (large) bin.
  
  I agree with Michael - I don't worry about non-organic foods going into my own compost. It all rots down to the same stuff in the end, and my garden certainly hasn't suffered for it - it's much better than landfilling it.
  Liz Upton, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• We already compost any vegetable matter (if it's meat, the dogs get it). We're in a rental so we can't have an actual compost pile in the yard; we take our kitchen scraps back into an orange grove to a pile we've started (which is starting to "work" nicely!). We also recycle like fiends, everything from plastic grocery store bags to batteries to cardboard. And we save #2 jugs to fill with water for hurricane season...
  Susan, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I've been composting my kitchen & garen waste for several years now. It's the best form of recycling because you can do it at home, and you don't need to lug huge bags of compost home from the garden centre.
  Simon Bridewell, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Maybe I'll try seperating my organic compost from the compost with pesticides. That way I'd feel save using the organic stuff on my garden, while keeping the pesticide contaminated stuff out of the landfill (or incinerator).
  
  Maybe I'll put the contaminated compost near the garage, which is probably already contaminated with gasoline and other unappealing goo!
  
  Thanks for this pledge, by the way!
  Turil Cronburg, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!