Garden waste collections to take winter break
Monday, October 23 2006
The Council’s garden waste collections are about to pause for the winter before resuming next Spring. The final garden waste of the year will be made next week, starting 30 October.
If you have garden waste to dispose of after next week, you can still take it to the Community Recycling Centres at Mansfield Road, Hawick and Easter Langlee, Galashiels.
The material all goes to the compost site at Easter Langlee to be turned into compost which can be dug into garden beds to improve soil quality. The Langlee compost is already being used in Council parks and gardens across the Borders, and the Council hopes to make it available to local residents in due course.
Gardeners across the Scottish Borders have shown solid support for SBC’s campaign to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. This year the Council has already collected more than 4,000 tonnes of garden waste from urban homes.
During the summer of 2005, with only about two-thirds of the garden waste service introduced, the Council collected 1,800 tonnes.
“We have been really impressed with the uptake of this service,” said Julie Rankine, SBC Waste Strategy Manager. “Thank you to everyone who is helping us reduce the amount of waste we send to landfill in this way. Making compost takes time, so it’s still early days, but we hope to have the Langlee compost available locally before too long.”
Many households are composting their garden waste at home. This also reduces the amount of waste put out for collection and gives gardeners their own supply of compost to use on their own land to promote better plant growth.
“Whether people are composting at home or separating their garden waste for collection, it all means we are making our lives a bit ‘greener’ and doing less harm to the environment, which is something we should be proud of,” said Julie.
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