Compost Bins & Food Waste Digesters

Leicestershire County and Leicester City Councils have subsidised two compost converter units by offering them for half price alongside a buy one get one half price offer.

Under this offer the 220 Litre units will cost £9.98 and the 330 Litre will be £11.48. There will be a delivery charge of £5.49 per order.

Have a container available such as a kitchen caddy or old ice cream tub so that you can collect items for your compost bin from all over the house. Fill your kitchen caddy or container with everything from vegetable and fruit peelings to teabags, toilet roll tubes, cereal boxes and eggshells. Empty your kitchen caddy along with your garden waste into your compost bin.

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

How does it work?  

It takes between nine and twelve months for your compost to become ready to use, so now all you need to do is wait and let nature do the work, keep on adding greens and browns to top up your compost.

1. The compost bin requires a sunny part of your garden.

2. In order to work effectively it is best if the compost bin is located on bare soil or grass.

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

To purchase your compost bin by Straight please call 0844 571 4444 or order online at- www.getcomposting.com

Most Food digesters can take cooked and uncooked food, such as peelings and teabags, as well as cooked waste including meat fish and dairy. Food digesters turn this waste into food for your plants and garden in the form of soil improvers, liquid fertilisers or healthy nutrients. Take care when choosing a food digester as there are a number of different varieities avauilable. Make sure you pick one that is suitable for you and the kind of waste you create.

Whatever your needs there is a food digester to suit you.

For some examples please visit. the following websites.