UK: ‘People feel a sense of ownership’: the growth of community composting
Instead of burning or transporting their garden waste, residents of an English village built their own composting site
By Jessica Murray
The Guardian
Jan 23, 2025
Excerpt:
In the village of Thrupp, where houses are spread out over steep winding roads in the narrow Frome Valley, it’s difficult for lorries to get through to collect garden waste.
It leaves some people with the choice of lengthy car trips to a nearby town to take their green waste to a facility, or burning their rubbish in small bonfires that have prompted many irate social media posts.
“The system we have in place currently isn’t very good for our neighbourhood,” said Shelley Tester, a director of Brimscombe and Thrupp Community Composters (Batcom), which has been working to find a local – and more sustainable – solution to the problem.
Soon, residents will be able to bring their garden waste down to a community composting site in the village, where it will be turned into bags of compost that members of the scheme can then take away to enrich their soil at home.
“Because we’re all on a hill and a lot of us live on country lanes, people have these big brown wheelie bins for their garden waste but that’s only fine if the lorry can access you,” Tester said.
“But even then there’s the added environmental impact of taking tonnes of green waste and driving it miles away. Whereas if you’ve got local green waste that’s coming just down the hill, there’s no transportation costs, there’s no carbon. People have a really valuable product at the end of it – it just closes that loop.”
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/uk-people-feel-a-sense-of-ownership-the-growth-of-community-composting/
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