Composting

Composting is an easy way to dispose of your kitchen and green waste which also creates a nutrient rich food that can be used in your garden or allotment.

For more information on composting visit the Recycling Now website [external link]

Through a scheme with Straight Plc, you can now purchase discounted composting equipment [external link] (you need to be living in Darlington to take advantage of this)

Composting tips:

  • Anything that was once living will compost.
  • You should use an equal balance of green and brown waste in your compost heap.
  • Green waste includes raw vegetable and fruit peelings, tea bags and coffee grounds, weeds, grass cutting and soft prunings, poultry manure and bedding.
  • Brown waste includes cardboard, waste paper, shredded confidential waste, newspaper, leaves and bedding such as straw, hay and wood shavings from rabbits, guinea pigs and hamsters. 
  • Meat, dairy, cooked food and animal poo should not be composted.