Spring into composting at
home
Did you know 1/3 of your household waste could be used for
composting? Composting is a natural process that transforms your
kitchen and garden waste into valuable and nutrient rich food for
your garden, for free.
Anyone
with outside space can compost at home, and it’s easy to make and
use.
All you need to do is provide the right ingredients and let nature
do the rest.
The
Surrey Waste Partnership (which is made up of Surrey County Council and
the 11 district and borough councils in the county) is offering home
composting bins at fantastic prices, starting from £14.00 (RRP £39.00),
to encourage more residents to compost at home.
Even if you do compost already, there maybe a few extra things you could
put in. For example: empty cereal packets and egg boxes; fruit scraps
and vegetable peelings; tea bags and coffee grounds; vacuum bag contents
and even vegetarian pet bedding, are in fact great ingredients to make
compost. Mix this in with garden waste such as old flowers and nettles;
wood chippings and straw; twigs and dried leaves, and you have the
perfect recipe. When it is finished the compost will be like a fine
soil, ready to use.
Use it on your flower beds and vegetable plots, patio planters, hanging
baskets and even window boxes. Compost keeps your plants growing
healthily, by improving soil structure and fertility, maintaining
moisture levels and keeping your soil’s PH balance in place.
It is good for the environment. Home made compost produces ‘peat-free’
compost. This eradicates the need to buy peat products, which have been
commercially sourced and extracted from peat bogs, resulting in the
release of stored carbon from the bogs. In the UK alone, up to 94% of
the UK’s lowland peat bogs have been damaged or destroyed, destroying
the habitats of the rare plants and animals that live there.
And by putting less household waste out for collection, less energy is
required as there are fewer vehicle movements, waste handling and
industrial processes involved, and less waste going to landfill.
Composting at home is the easiest way to recycle your waste because you
can do it at home, in your own time. It takes little space and effort,
and it's so rewarding. Once you start, you’ll be surprised to see just
how much the waste in your kitchen bin and garden bin reduces by –
simply by putting suitable waste items into the compost bin instead.
Spring into composting at home and make the most of the waste you throw
away.
To buy a bin
or to dig up more advice on how to turn your table scraps and garden
waste into compost, visit
http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/getcomposting
or call 0844 571 4444.
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The Surrey Waste Partnership is made up of Surrey County Council and the
11 districts and borough councils in the county to manage Surrey’s waste
in the most efficient, economic and sustainable way possible.
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At the
Ladies Lunch for May 2008 our President John Mills (left) made a
formal presentation of the Award for Excellence to Ken Robinson
(shown below)
This award
to Ken under the terms of our constitution which states:-
"AWARD
of EXCELLENCE - Any member may be awarded a Certificate, generally
as an acknowledgement of exceptional services to the Club. This
award will be proposed by the Committee and confirmed at any general
meeting with a simple majority. This does not affect any due
subscriptions or rights of membership if still a member of the
Club."
Ken has more than
qualified over the last two decades he has been elected as President
and of course committee member, in this role he has served for the
last ten years as Speakers Secretary and has arranged for well over
110 speakers, all of high caliber.
In other spheres
he has been involved in many outside visits with respect to Events
Secretary and is known as "Mr. Boat Trip" after his many successful
River Thames Tours and on board excellent lunches, plus others
events such as the recent coach trip to The Royal Observatory,
National Maritime Museum, Queens House and the upcoming Brooklands Museum ,
more about these
can be
found here.
The membership was
delighted to be present to congratulate Ken on this highly respected
Award, well done Ken
At our Ladies Lunch
May 2007 our principal guest
was John Moore (below) and Consort, John is the Chairman of the Surbiton Probus
Club. More details of the lunch.........here.
For
the February 2007 meeting we were please to welcome Rev. Raymond
Leigh a member of the Bognor Regis Probus Club, Ray is retired from
the Anglican Ministry but is at present also the Resident Priest at
St Thomas a' Becket , Pagham, Sussex.
Ray was visiting
because he and his wife are planning to relocate in this area and he
felt it would be nice to check out the local Probus Clubs and our
website invites all visitors to join us, if and when they move we
hope that Ewell is a good club to join.
For
the May 2006
meeting we were pleased to welcome Bob Russell who visited us whilst in the UK
(he is on a European /USA tour of aeronautical sites), Bob hails from
near Perth in Australia and has been President of his Probus Club in
Mandurah Western Australia he is retired, living
in Mandurah one hour south of Perth after spending his life developing
farms and farming Sheep, Cattle, Wheat, Barley and Oil Seeds and his hobby
is flying being a qualified pilot for many years.
72km south of Perth,
Mandurah is located at the entrance to the Peel Inlet and offers a
unique blend of fishing, swimming and beach activities in some of
the finest waterways in Australia, less than an hour’s drive away
from Perth, the capitol city of Western Australia. This busy capital
of the Peel region is constantly abuzz with lively locals and
laid-back tourists. Mandurah is an excellent gateway to the
Australia's South West.
At the meeting of
1 st February 2006
we were delighted that W.A. (Hove) Wood joined us as a welcome
visitor to our Club meeting, Hove from The Probus Club of
Rustenburg, Johannesburg, South Africa is over in the UK for a
holiday and to see his new grandson, plus a business trip as he is
The Split Roller Bearing Specialist for Q.E.Bearings (Pty) Ltd.
He
found out about us on this site.
He is
shown below with David Smart our President.
RUSTENBURG
This town founded in
1851, and named after Rustenburg (town of rest) in the Cape. For
some years, it was a frontier post and a resort for hunters,
explorers and prospectors who used it as a base from which to
venture into the far interior. The main agricultural activity in
the area is beef cattle, Virginia tobacco, citrus fruit, wheat,
maize, sunflower seeds and groundnuts. Rustenburg lies on the
edge of the bushveld igneous complex, one of the most heavily
mineralised districts in the world. Mines in the region produce
platinum, asbestos, chrome, tin, lead, marble, granite and
slate. Despite this being an industrial area the town is green
and lush and has a delightful climate.
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