6 May 2008, 08/96
Free compost to celebrate national event
Make sure you have heaps of fun during Compost Awareness Week
and bag yourself some free compost.
To celebrate this national event and to say thank you to those
who regularly compost their garden rubbish, Lancashire County
Council and West Lancashire District Council are giving away tonnes
of compost on Thursday May 8th at Asda car park, Ingram Road,
Skelmersdale, starting 10am.
All that is asked is that you bring your own bags to collect the
compost, which will be limited to 3 bags per person.
As well as giving away compost, it will be an opportunity for
people to learn more about composting at home and how this could
help them reduce the amount of rubbish they throw away.
Graham Concannon, Executive Manager for Street Scene,
said:"Looking after the environment is one of our big priorities
and residents can play their part by composting at home. So this
event is a great opportunity to bag some free compost and help the
environment at the same time."
The compost is being supplied by SITA UK who turn over 50,000
tonnes of people’s garden rubbish across Lancashire into compost
each year. This is collected at Lancashire County Council’s network
of Household Waste Recycling Centres and through the kerbside
collection of garden waste.
Related information
> Refuse
and recycling
> Environment