Compost Awareness Week 2011

The eleventh annual international Compost Awareness Week will be celebrated from Sunday 1^st to Sunday 8^th May 2011.  The week aims to encourage more people to realise the benefits of home composting and using peat-free composts made from recycled material.

We are marking Compost Awareness Week 2011 with volunteers from Shropshire Master Composters set to organise a series of ‘composting clinics’ where residents can drop by and receive face-to-face advice from an experienced ‘Master Composter’.

Date	Time	Location
Sunday 1st May 2011 Sunday 1st May 2011	10 am – 4pm  10 am – 5pm	Greenwood Trust, Ironbridge Byeways, Whittington
Monday 2nd May 2011	10 am – 3 pm	Welshampton Village Hall, Welshampton
Tuesday 3rd May 2011	10am – 4pm	Shrewsbury, Town Square, Shrewsbury
Wednesday 4th May 2011	10am – 4pm	Oswestry Market, Baileys Head, Oswestry
Thursday 5th May 2011	10am - 2pm	Albrighton Retired Mens (ARMS) Club, Albrighton
Friday 6th May 2011	TBC	TBC, Ludlow
Saturday 7th May 2011	10am – 4pm 10am - 4pm	Attingham Park, Atcham Wyevale Nursery, Telford
Sunday 8th May 2011	10am – 4pm	Attingham Park, Atcham

For more information on composting and how to get a discounted home compost bin through the Council scheme visit http://www.recycleforshropshire.com/

Did you know?

• If we composted all of the available food waste produced by UK households we could avoid the equivalent of 2,000,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year.