Make Your Composting Pledge

Urban Growing

31 Aug

As part of our Urban Soil Food project, in September we’re running a composting pledge campaign, sharing tips and facts about composting and food waste, and encouraging you to pledge to compost at home, or at your local Composting Hub.

Composting is a great way to use your food waste to improve soil structure, water retention and carbon storage capacity, all meaning the food you grow will be more nutritious, and you’re saving food waste from landfill! With the correct conditions, a batch of compost can be ready to use in as little as three months!

Octopus’ composting expert William is on hand to answer your composting questions to help you #choosecomposting and pledge to begin transforming your food waste into soil.

Here’s William’s top tips:

Place your compost bin in a partial sunlight as a cooler shady spot can slow the process.
Organic waste is split into two categories – greens and browns. Greens are a rich source of nitrogen and generally wetter, things like vegetable peelings, egg shells and coffee grounds. Browns are a rich source of carbon and generally drier, including twigs, cardboard and woodchip.
What you add to your compost should be one third greens to two thirds browns.
Water droplets leaking out when you squeeze your compost? This means the water content is too high – and more browns are required.