70% of our waste is made up of vegetable or organic matter and includes pieces of fruit and peelings, cakes and biscuit scraps, paper and cardboard, sandwiches, milkshakes and teabags and anything else which rots or decomposes. This waste is called putrescible and most of it makes good compost!  Composting would reduce over 60% of our total waste going to landfill!

Here is the recipe:

Utensils

Compost bin

Garden fork

Fine mesh

Bucket or hose

gloves

COMPOSTING IS EASY!

Just like making a cake!

Instructions

Place the compost bin over the mesh in a warm place handy to water and convenient to fill.  The mesh will keep mice from digging under the bin.  Add layers of each material and water well.

Turn the heap or aerate with a fork occasionally.  Wait for about six weeks and use on the garden.  Worm farms are also useful.

Ingredients

Fruit peelings, apple cores, tea, coffee grounds, crusts, leaves, shredded paper, biscuits, soil, grass clippings, sawdust, ashes, manure, hay and anything else that will rot.

DON'T use meat, fat, bones or dairy products. (These tend to smell and attract rats ,dogs, and flies)

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