Advantages: A SMALL BUT SIGNIFICANT WAY TO SAVE THE WORLD Disadvantages: REQUIRES A TINY AMOUNT OF SPACE AND EFFORT
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In 2004-2005, 29.7 million tonnes of rubbish was produced by residents of England. That's a lot of baked bean cans and loo roll tubes! Almost ¾'s of this huuuuuge amount was disposed of in Landfill. Landfill is literally just that ...
Advantages: Less household waste, encourages bugs into the garden Disadvantages: Can get messy!
I am all for re-cycling and I believe that every household should try and do their bit to save the environment. I also believe that local councils make it much easier for us to do this. I grew up in the countryside and moved into my own house around five ...
Advantages: Recycles kitchen and garden waste, provides organic fertiliser at no cost Disadvantages: Takes a little time and effort
• What is compost?
Compost is the residue of organic wastes, such as vegetable parings or plant clippings, used as garden fertiliser. You can pay significant amounts to buy it in bags, ready-made, or you can make your own at no cost at all.
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Advantages: Great For The Environment Disadvantages: None
Anyone can compost, it's very easy and helps the environment. Tonnes of garden and kitchen waste are thrown away every year when it could be composted.
You can buy lots of different compost bins, mine is a plastic one with a lid and a hole at the botto ...
Advantages: It saves waste and you end up with very cheap compost. Disadvantages: None, unless you count the smell if the weather gets hot!
Having a compost heap in your back garden is good common sense. Composting is an excellent way of utilising waste that would otherwise be consigned to the bin and after all why fill the waste bin when you can put it to a very good use.
A compost heap i ...