Home composting
Subsidised Home Compost Bins
 | The Hertfordshire WasteAware Partnership currently provides home compost bins to Hertfordshire residents at subsidised prices.
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If you would like to order a compost bin, call 0844 571 4444 or visit herts get composting 
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For further information please contact the WasteAware helpline on 0300 1234051 or refer to the home compost information below.
Put these in...
You can compost:
- fruit and vegetable peelings
- teabags
- cardboard egg boxes
- grass cuttings
- hedge trimmings
...and keep these out
Avoid composting:
- meat (place this in your brown bin)
- dairy products (place this in your brown bin)
- plate scrapings (place this in your brown bin)
- diseased plants (place this in your brown bin)
- cooked foods (place this in your brown bin)
- glass (place this in your black box)
- metals (place tins, cans and aerosols in your black box)
- animal litter (place this in your grey bin)
What are the benefits of home composting?
- It saves money by replacing shop bought soil improvers.
- It protects the environment by reducing waste going to landfill (organic waste produces methane at landfill sites which is a gas that contributes to climate change). It also replaces peat products which are dug from important ecological sites.
- It provides an excellent soil conditioner, adding organic matter and nutrients to improve poor soils.
- Compost helps maintain healthy plant growth, suppressing some plant diseases and pests while improving the microbial and worm population of the soil.
For information on how to compost at home visit Recycle Now .
Wormeries
Alternatively if you have no bare soil upon which to place a composter, you can get a wormery. It’s a great way to involve your children in composting as they love to look at the worms chomping through the fruit and vegetable peelings!
For further information please visit wormeries or herts get composting .
