Following our news of the Isle of Wight Council Composting Champions Scheme BBC Radio 4 contacted Island Pulse to find out more.  If you want to Become a Composting Champion  we have further details on a free training day taking place at Aldermoor Farm, Ryde on 6th March 2010.

Composting is an inexpensive, natural process that transforms your kitchen and garden waste into valuable, nutrient rich food for your garden.  Composting at home for just one year can save global warming gases equivalent to all the CO2 your kettle produces annually, or your washing machine produces in 3 months.

Whether master composter or composting novice, volunteers are given training and a resource kit along with support from the council’s recycling team, and each other.  Composting Champions then use their knowledge and enthusiasm to answer queries, give advice, and encourage their local community in home composting, be it schools, church groups or their neighbours. 

The Composting Champions then use their knowledge and enthusiasm to answer queries, give advice, and encourage their local community in home composting, be it schools, church groups or their neighbours. 

If you are interested in composting, and would like to be part of a team helping others to compost at home, you could be a Composting Champion. You don’t need to have prior knowledge or even a compost bin, just enthusiasm and a little time.

Book your place on the free training day at Aldermoor Farm, Ryde on 6th March 2010,contact 823777, recycle@iow.gov.uk Read more here: Become a Composting Champion