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Topic ID 3051
31/08/2007 by Arty
Giant Compost Heap?
Brown Bin day today - and it suddenly occured to me, where does it all go? Does in go staight to landfill, or is there a giant compost heap lurking in the area? Out of interest, does anyone know where the rose cuttings and hamster bedding ends up?
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Reply ID 44013
31/08/2007 by Joby
I'd heard that it is composted and then sold - indeed I've recently seen Hertfordshire compost and topsoil on sale at the tip in Bengeo and also at Pearce's Farm shop.
Reply ID 44016
31/08/2007 by JohnSmith
And I'm sure the money made from this venture is used to keep our Council Tax down...
Reply ID 44020
31/08/2007 by hertford born and bred
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Originally posted by Marilyn
Not sure where the giant compost heap is
Just outside St Albans. If ever you have took the M10 link road from the A414 to to the M1 you will see it on your left hand side smouldering away.
Reply ID 44028
31/08/2007 by Leo Densian
quote:
Originally posted by hertford born and bred
quote:
Originally posted by Marilyn
Not sure where the giant compost heap is
Just outside St Albans. If ever you have took the M10 link road from the A414 to to the M1 you will see it on your left hand side smouldering away.
Depending on the wind direction you may smell it a long time before you see it! [xx(]
Reply ID 44029
31/08/2007 by Ewoowar
quote:
Originally posted by hertford born and bred
quote:
Originally posted by Marilyn
Not sure where the giant compost heap is
Just outside St Albans. If ever you have took the M10 link road from the A414 to to the M1 you will see it on your left hand side smouldering away.
I wondered what that was.
Reply ID 44037
01/09/2007 by Arty
quote:
Originally posted by hertford born and bred
quote:
Originally posted by Marilyn
Not sure where the giant compost heap is
Just outside St Albans. If ever you have took the M10 link road from the A414 to to the M1 you will see it on your left hand side smouldering away.
I thought that proper compost was only 'created' in an enclosed space, i.e. one of those Dalek-shaped black bin jobbies, with the help of herds of those small flies that attack you when you deposit yesterday's potato peelings?
Reply ID 44039
01/09/2007 by Marilyn
No I am pretty sure it can be done in the open if you ahve the space, seem to remeber seeing a progamme about how the do it at kew at that was huge piles in the open.
Reply ID 44040
01/09/2007 by aubend
quote:
Originally posted by Arty
is there a giant compost heap lurking in the area?
Stevenage?
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