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The following items can easily be turned into compost, making your garden greener and reducing the amount of rubbish that is sent to Gloucestershire landfill sites.

Browns. Slow to rot, provide carbon and fibre and allow air pockets to form:

Wormeries

Water Butts

Other Composters

Aunty Rubbish talks composting Hello everyone, I’ve been composting for the last 30 years.

Think of how much waste I’ve transformed into compost over that time!

Gloucestershire County Council has a team of Master Composter volunteers, who could help you with any composting problems. If you would like to get in touch, please email me at aunty.rubbish@gloucestershire.gov.uk or follow me on twitter and/or facebook

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Cardboard & egg boxes, Scrunched up paper, fallen leaves & sawdust, twigs, branches & bark.

Keep these out. Certain things should never be placed in your bin: Meats, fish & cooked foods, dairy products, dog poo or cat litter, perennial weeds or diseased plants.

Find the right site.

Ideally site your compost bin in a reasonably sunny site on bare soil.

Choose a place where you can easily add ingredients to the bin and get the compost out.

Add the right mix.

A 50:50 mix of greens and browns is the perfect recipe for compost.

Keep a caddy or container in the kitchen to collect everything from vegetable and fruit peelings to teabags, toilet roll tubes, cereal boxes and egg shells before emptying into your bin along with your garden waste.

Wait a while.

It takes between nine and twelve months for your compost to become ready for use, don’t forget to mix it occasionally to add air. Once it has become crumbly, dark, resembling thick moist soil and smells earthy it is ready to use.

Use it.

Don’t worry if your compost looks a little lumpy with twigs and bits of eggshell - this is normal. Use it to enrich borders and vegetable patches, plant up patio containers or feed the lawn.

www.recycleforgloucestershire.com/composting Ref: ENV00308 03/11

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A guide to home composting