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Replace Your Brown-Top Bin with a Home Composter from just £7!

January 29, 2008 10:30 AM
Compost Bin

Compost Converter

Recycle for Kent has now launched a a new composting offer for all residents, in partnership with the WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme) national "Recycle Now" campaign. With home composters available from just £7, now is the perfect time to replace your brown-top bin, make your own rich compost and SAVE on Shepway's new £35 Garden Tax!

From the start of April, residents who want to use the currently free brown-top bin garden waste service in Shepway will be charged £35 per year, or their bins removed.

To avoid the charge, Shepway residents are being encouraged to take up the offer of a low cost composter and save on the need to pay an annual charge. The details of the offer, which is directly adminstered through WRAP, offer compost converters at reduced prices, including:

  • Compost converter (220ltr) at £7.00 (on-line price - £8.00 by phone)
  • Compost converter (330ltr) at £9.00 (on-line price - £10.00 by phone)
  • Komp (square composter) (250ltr) at £19.00 (on-line price - £20.00 by phone)

You can order your compost bin by calling 0845 077 0757 quoting reference HCA1, or save get the lowest prices (saving £1 per item) by ordering online at www.recyclenow.com/compost

You can also find out about and order other composting and food waste digestions systems such as wormeries and the revolutionary "Green Cone" green waste digester.

Compost converters are ideal for both garden and food waste. Composting is Nature's way of recycling and helps to reduce the amount of waste we put out for the bin men. By composting kitchen and garden waste you can easily improve the quality of your soil and be well on your way to a more beautiful garden.

The Green Cone is a food waste digester. This means that it can dispose of all kitchen food waste including cooked and uncooked food, meat, fish, bones, dairy products, bread, pasta, fruit scraps and vegetable peelings. The Green Cone's design breaks food down into carbon dioxide and nutrient rich water which drains away into the soil.

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