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I question this export of garden waste - the price in diesel of collection and disposal and therefore carbon dioxide and promotion of climate change seems to me to be transferring the cost of gardening (both money and environmental damage) to others.
Hereabouts the council charge for green waste collection although you can take it to the tip free of charge: http://www.runnymede.gov.uk/portal/site/runnymede/menuitem.ed490bd38c7f552d5ecf4570af8ca028/ Is it not right that the polluter should pay and that a charge be made for collection?
Should not wastes from house and garden, as far as possible, stay on the premises if one has any aspirations to sustainablity and the trade off of free soil improver is valuable?
All kitchen and garden wastes over the last two years have not even filled my two black plastic composters and the huge original volume is now, I would guess, hardly enough to fill a wheelbarrow with finished compost so I have not even bothered to empty them. I admit grass mowings are taken to the allotment, but stupendous quantities of vegetable wastes are composted at home.
It appears as well that there is a misunderstanding here. Garden compost is merely a soil improver and cannot be considered a viable substitute for multipurpose potting media. Multipurpose potting compost is unlikely, especially if peat based, to be a satisfactory soil improver although I know of misguided landscapers who buy bargain multipurpose compost for use in landscaping schemes. Garden compost is actually a better soil improver than multipupose compost.
Boggy
Beware the bat-eared bogweevil
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