Can anyone recommend a good place to buy a compost bin?

The best price I've seen so far is a 330L bin for £20 with a 5L kitchen caddy for £4 through our local council.

Does that seem a good price, or can it be beaten?

Thanks

Can be beaten, £0 on Freecycle

Contact your local council, our council do 330 litre ones with a free kitchen caddy for £6 or a 230 litre one for £5.

Most local authorities are encouraging recycling so well worth a call.

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Sorry to say Kent Council aren't so generous:

Compost Bins - Special Offer

Still a reduction of sorts. Mind you we had to collect us from the RC so probably why it was cheaper.

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Our council (east cambs) does the big ones for £10 and the smaller ones for £8. If you order online you get a pound off....

No help if you don't live in east cambs, lol

janeyo

maybe worth looking on free ads?

Oh yes! Good thinking, thanks


Indeed! KCC aren't the most generous or "green" of councils!


LOL! Thanks, but in Kent

Most counsils should give out compost bins for free

I had to pay for mine from the council, but it was only 6 Quid.
Works well.

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Our council (Staffordshire Moorlands) put us in touch with a Company called Blackwall (Telephone 0845 130 60 90 Fax 0845 130 60 91). We got two large dalek-type bins for £6.00 each, delivered.

valmarg

I live in Kent and have just bought a compost bin from local council. 330ltrs for £7 if ordered online.And they delivered it on "Snowy Sunday"

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hi everyone . i have been thinking of getting one of the darlek plastic type from our council (£18 in hertfordshire) but im abit confused as how they work. every thing i've read on getting good compost states that you have to turn it regular stuff like that. so as you can't do that with those type of bins does that mean it all gets abit slimy and smelly?. i will have to place it quite near the house so bit worried about that. thanks in advance for any help.

it would certainly help reach those EU targets. Our council point you to Recycle now - Recyclenow Homepage

Edit: is anyone else having trouble getting onto freecycles website?

You will need to turn it. Pull of the plastic bin and then fork it into another one so that the contents are inverted. It's always better to have 2 bins to make this easier.

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hi

i have a large Dalek and i was only turning mine today and to be honest it looks great in there, i just get my fork in and dig it about, and turn it around, if you get the larger one its not bad to do. My compost is nice and dark and everything is breaking down nicely, i do however, cut my veg peelings up small and shred the newspaper and make sure that i layered with manure as well as grass etc, i think it all depends on the layers you put in, i areate every week.

Hope this helps, happy composting :-)

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NO...why do you want to go to the web site Freecycle is run by local groups using Yahoo Groups....you subscribe to your local group and they email you or you visit your local groups website on Yahoo

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I've got half a dozen of the large daleks and they're always full. I never turn anything and they are in the shade. Apart from the top 25%, the rest of the compost is crumbly and brown. I put all my garden waste as well as all my kitchen veg peelings. Every spring I empty them out, put the unrotted bits back in one of them and let the copious red worms do their stuff. All this turning is a waste of time, completely unnecessary. You'll still get the good stuff with no effort!

Oh dear i'm doing something wrong then.We have been putting all our peelings tea bags etc into our dalek bin and its a gooey wet mess still after years. Hubby turned it out yesterday to dry it out.We will try getting another bin so its not so squashed down.Will that help?

Darliks work better in full sun.

It looks like yours is too wet. If you are just adding kitchen and grasscuttings you need to all lots of shredded paper. or scrunched up newsprint.

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