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Composters at Home.
Continuing the Compost Awareness Week theme( 6th-12th May), we held a composters at home open day here at our home yesterday.
This is the poster /flag produced by Norfolk County Council, UK to promote this activity. My husband is a master composter and works as a community volunteer for the scheme. Lots of home open days were being held all over the county. We invited our friends and neighbours to the event, (including more than one flick contacts), to partake in this. Our local Green party representative also came along, and we turned in into a very lively gathering for several hours.
my photos "Celebrating the Countryside" series is running alongside this awareness theme. The aim of this small project is to highlight the earth's dwindling natural resources and the need to recycle these in a productive way.
Composting is one easy and non-labour intensive way of achieving this. The question could be asked:
"Why bother as this type of matter illustrated will eventually rot in landfill sites?"
The answer is,Yes, it will, but as it is compressed with many other items in a landfill site, it will produce a toxic methane gas, one of the main gases responsible for global warming.
Besides, to produce your own compost, for those tubs and hanging baskets, will cost nothing compared to the bags commercially produced for sale. This type of compost contains peat, which has to be extracted from peat bogs.Peat bog sites are dwindling in numbers, so by composting at home you will also be saving these precious bogs and therefore, helping the environment.
You can find more information on composting at home by visiting the website www.norfolk.gov.uk/compost
Happy composting and thanks for helping the environment.
There will be more about what can be composted later as well as the intial small financial outlay to purchase a compost bin.
Composters at Home.
Continuing the Compost Awareness Week theme( 6th-12th May), we held a composters at home open day here at our home yesterday.
This is the poster /flag produced by Norfolk County Council, UK to promote this activity. My husband is a master composter and works as a community volunteer for the scheme. Lots of home open days were being held all over the county. We invited our friends and neighbours to the event, (including more than one flick contacts), to partake in this. Our local Green party representative also came along, and we turned in into a very lively gathering for several hours.
my photos "Celebrating the Countryside" series is running alongside this awareness theme. The aim of this small project is to highlight the earth's dwindling natural resources and the need to recycle these in a productive way.
Composting is one easy and non-labour intensive way of achieving this. The question could be asked:
"Why bother as this type of matter illustrated will eventually rot in landfill sites?"
The answer is,Yes, it will, but as it is compressed with many other items in a landfill site, it will produce a toxic methane gas, one of the main gases responsible for global warming.
Besides, to produce your own compost, for those tubs and hanging baskets, will cost nothing compared to the bags commercially produced for sale. This type of compost contains peat, which has to be extracted from peat bogs.Peat bog sites are dwindling in numbers, so by composting at home you will also be saving these precious bogs and therefore, helping the environment.
You can find more information on composting at home by visiting the website www.norfolk.gov.uk/compost
Happy composting and thanks for helping the environment.
There will be more about what can be composted later as well as the intial small financial outlay to purchase a compost bin.