Scandal Compost?

Going back to the original point, I am surprised that garden compost is only 21% of landfill - I had heard of a figure of over 50%. Things are changing, but if people are so lazy that they abuse the Parent and Child parking at supermarkets, I doubt that they will be bothered about taking their garden compost to the tip. I suspect most people in towns put some or all in landfill bags.

Waco, you are not using your horse output efficiently. There was a programme on Finnish community heating systems on the TV some time ago. At the local racecourse, where surprisingly all the racehorses were stabled. They burned the manure and fed the heat back into the community system. They said the output of just two horses was enough the heat the average house over the year.

 

About horse manure:
Two guys meet at the racecourse, one shovelling horse manure into a big black bag.
"What you going to do with that?" the other man asks.
"Take it home to put on top of the strawberries."
"Oh will have to try that one, we always use sugar!"

And about composting: Thanks for putting my mind to rest regarding the couch grass (dug another piece of flower bed over yesterday for about an hour and pulled another wheelbarrow full of roots out!), I will just kick it into the compost bin - we are lucky enough to have two! (We live in a mid-terrace in a block that used to be 4 flats and was transformed into 3 terraced houses instead, the only conversion of that kind in the estate and I think the people who distributed the bins last spring did not click and put 4 bins outside the block! Hee hee, we grabbed two - and that despite having our own heap for the easy-composting. It's times like these - couch grass roots - when the second compost bin comes handy!)

 

Thanks for reminding me Peter, I did see something somewhere about using it for heating, sadly it looks like I am going to have to part with Verity so will be horseless.

 

Aw Waco - that's really sad. It's been nice hearing about the horse.. is she going to a good home (I'm sure she is) :D

 

I have not found buyer for her yet, but it will have to be a very special home before I let her go. I think I am going to be some time before I am able to ride again, so its not fair to keep her just doing nothing. I could let her go on loan but that can be very troublesome so I have made this sad decision.

 

Interesting looking at the UK's waste disposal statistics. (See Wasteonline)

Of what we throw away -
Garden waste = 21%. But if you add kitchen waste and "soil etc" it adds up to 41%. If some of the 18% "paper and board" (paper is organic) is added we could be nearer 50% of household waste being organic and a potential horticultural/agricultural resource being used as land fill rather than being returned to the land.