East Riding residents are being invited to collect two free bags of compost
The popular compost giveaways will be returning for a number of dates in September, East Riding of Yorkshire Council has confirmed. The second round of the scheme will be coming to eight sites in the area including Beverley, Preston, Goole, Hornsea, Pocklington, Withernsea, Driffield and Carnaby.
East Riding residents are being invited to come along and collect two free bags of compost, which has all been recycled from the garden and food waste people put in their brown bins. The council handed out 5,000 bags of compost for free in the last giveaway events held in May.
Councillor Paul West, the council’s cabinet member for environment and transport, said: “I’m always amazed at how popular our compost giveaways are every year. Our residents really love them.
“And we appreciate all the work they do throughout the year, sorting their waste into each bin, and making the East Riding one of the top recycling areas in the country.”
All contents collected from people’s brown bins get recycled into compost by the Biowise plant in Willerby – where the giveaway compost comes from.
Brown bins can take grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, small branches, leaves, flowers and weeds, all cooked and uncooked food, peelings, plate scrapings, bones, bread, meat, eggshells and small amounts of soups, sauces and gravies.
The free compost giveaways will be at:
- Saturday, September 13, from 10am – Beverley, council depot, Annie Reed Road, HU17 0LF
- Monday, September 15, from 4.30pm – Preston, Lelley Fields Crematorium, Sproatley Road, HU12 8FX
- Wednesday, September 17, from 4pm – Goole, West Park, DN14 6UU
- Friday September 19, from 4.30pm – Hornsea, Freeport, Rolston Road, HU18 1UT
- Monday, September 22, from 5pm – Pocklington, Wolds Gliding Club, Hodsow Lane, YO42 1NP
- Wednesday, September, 24, from 4pm – Withernsea, Pavilion Car Park, Station Road, HU19 2QA
- Friday, September 26, from 4pm – Driffield, Driffield Showground, Kelleythorpe, YO25 9DN
- Saturday, September 27, from 10am – Carnaby, council depot, Carnaby Industrial Estate, Lancaster Road, YO15 3QY.
Residents are asked not to queue at the venues beforehand, or they may be turned away for safety reasons. The compost is best used as a soil improver.