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Garden waste recycled as compost by local councils
"Just Molly" wrote in message news:EM0Dc.73$6r.53@newsfe2-win... "Tumbleweed" wrote in message ... "Chris Hogg" wrote in message ... In recent years, our local council (Kerrier, in west Cornwall) has been taking garden waste at local waste recycling sites. They take it away to a central depot where it's shredded and composted. But it's disposed of locally, rather than being made available to the public (spread on a nearby farmer's fields, I believe, with whom they have some sort of arrangement). When I rang them to ask if they had any plans to bag and sell it, they replied that they would really love to, but new regulations from DEFRA relating to foot-and-mouth mean that they would have to get it all regularly tested, which makes it too expensive to justify (tested for F&M presumably, although why garden waste should carry it is beyond me! Perhaps DEFRA are worried about animal contamination). I'm amazed and disappointed. What do other councils do? Is this testing thing just an excuse, or does it really have to be done? And if so, what's the logic? my council composts garden waste and makes it available for free at the local dump. Mine sells it for £5 a bag :0( Ours does it for £1 a bag (covers cost of bags and a token sum I think). On the F&M thing - surely farmers using it over vast expanses of land are *more* likely to spread F&M if that's the worry - smacks of nonsense to me. --Poppy |
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