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Martin Pearse
South Gloucestershire Community Composting Project
Resource Futures
The CREATE Centre
Smeaton Rd
Bristol
BS1 6XN
Tel: 0117 914 3450
Fax: 0117 929 7283
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Good quality compost, logs and firewood now available, and for you to collect.
For more information: steve.dagger@resourcefutures.co.uk |
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Community Composting Project - South Gloucestershire |
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Composting green waste provides a simple way of diverting organic matter from landfill. If people are not home composting, then other approaches are necessary and community composting is a great alternative to home composting.
In South Gloucestershire, large scale facilities are provided by SITA through the SORT IT* campaign. Although large scale facilities are relatively cost effective and can provide a good compost product, these are costly to set up because they require waste management licences and strict controls. These facilities will also need transport for the bulky green waste and the large amounts of the finished product. While this is an important part of the solution for dealing with green waste in South Gloucestershire, there is also a demand for small scale facilities to handle waste which is not collected by the kerbside collections which is where community compost sites come in. |
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Community Composting - why? |
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The alternative complementary approach is to develop small scale composting facilities at a community level. With this approach, green waste from the immediate area is composted for use by local people.
This low input, low output has four main advantages:
A waste management licence is not necessary because pollution problems are few and small scale
Any problems such as vermin, smell or noise that do arise can be easily and quickly dealt with
Sites can be put up and taken down quickly and at fairly low cost
Transporting bulky material is not necessary thereby reducing transport costs and noise and air pollution. |
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How it all Began |
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The Community Composting Project is a partnership between Resource Futures, South Gloucestershire Council, and local Community Groups. In November 2003, a successful application was made to Defra Waste Minimisation and Recycling Fund for the funding of the project and this became available from April 2004. From 2005, the project was funded by CRED (Community Recycling & Economic Development programme) - a Big Lottery fund, South Gloucestershire Council and income from the sites. From January 2008, there has been no external funding available, and the project is funded by South Gloucestershire Council, some contract work and income from the sites.
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The Approach |
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| The two main aims of the project are to target sources of green waste such as domestic garden waste brought to ‘bring’ sites, and to provide a service to local gardening and landscaping contractors. Community owned sites are an ideal way to keep the waste and the finished product close to where it originates which is a key issue for this project. These sites are for the local community to use and develop. The hope is that they will become a focus for developing a whole range of recycling, re-use and composting initiatives. |
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From Small Beginnings |
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There were three sites in existence in South Gloucestershire which had been running for a few years. This project aims to assist the development of these established sites as well as to create further sites. Each site will focus on the free composting of domestic green waste delivered by the public. There will be some additional material brought from contract shredding work, local authority open spaces department and landscape gardeners where a fee will be charged for its disposal. |
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Project Update |
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Current Community Sites:
Hawkesbury Upton, Patchway, Shireway (Yate) and Thornbury.
Two larger sites have been established at Council premises, where large qauntities of Open Spaces green waste is shredded, procesed and then screened, to produce 10mm quality compost. The compost product has been analysed by the Organic Resource Agency, and found to be of a high quality.
For more information on any of the sites, please contact us.
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For More Information |
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For further details about the project contact:
Martin Pearse
Phone: 0117 914 3450
Email: martin.pearse@resourcefutures.co.uk
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