{"id":8894,"date":"2010-11-08T00:09:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T07:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8894"},"modified":"2010-11-07T04:32:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T11:32:28","slug":"what-to-do-with-garden-non-compostables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/what-to-do-with-garden-non-compostables\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do with Garden Non-compostables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Waste bag by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5151912413\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1047\/5151912413_0dd0af1c61.jpg\" alt=\"Waste bag\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems a waste to put non-compostables into landfill if there is an alternative. Fortunately our local authority provides a green bag and collection service. Your local tip will probably have separate areas for hardcore and other garden waste.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Composting Means and Methods<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Garden compost heaps are for short term rotters taking 6-12 months.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Green bag&#8217; council schemes are better able to cope with problem rotting and are suitable for items listed below.<\/li>\n<li>Landfill is far longer term rotting but even this is not suitable for Japanese Knotweed which needs burning.<\/li>\n<li>Wormeries are fine for green waste and cooked food and scraps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What do you Avoid on your Compost Heap<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anything that you avoid putting on your compost heap is classified as non-compostable for this purpose.<\/li>\n<li>Roots particularly from trees are often too slow to rot down and I green bag them.<\/li>\n<li>Pernicious roots sometimes survive the heat of my compost. Then they regrow loads of new plants when the compost is spread. So weeds and perennial roots\u00c2\u00a0 get green bagged.<\/li>\n<li>Seed heads are green bagged so the council can compost them on an industrial scale.<\/li>\n<li>Diseased and infected plant material is also green bagged except honey fungus<\/li>\n<li>Excess of one waste product such as twiggy slow rotting stalks sometimes end up in my green bag.<\/li>\n<li>Ruble and pure clay can&#8217;t be green bagged and needs to go to landfill unless you can create a new use for them like a base for a raised bed or pond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/begin-a-compost-heap\/\">Read <\/a>about beginning a compost heap to get more tips and ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems a waste to put non-compostables into landfill if there is an alternative. Fortunately our local authority provides a green bag and collection service. Your local tip will probably have separate areas for hardcore and other garden waste. Composting Means and Methods Garden compost heaps are for short term rotters taking 6-12 months. &#8216;Green bag&#8217; council schemes are better able to cope with problem rotting and are suitable for items listed below. Landfill is far longer term rotting but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/what-to-do-with-garden-non-compostables\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}