Here’s a message from the City Council:

City residents are being reminded that they can give their shrubs, flowers and vegetables a tonic with free compost that was once garden and food waste.

All of the Cambridge City Council’s garden and food waste is composted at Amey-Cespa’s waste management park on the A10 near Waterbeach in a process that’s similar to standard garden compost, although on much bigger scale.

First, the organic waste is shredded and moved between vast enclosed compost heaps over two weeks. The material reaches 60°C to speed up the composting process and to ensure the material is sanitised.

It then takes another six weeks in the open for it to break down into a rich organic fertiliser. As it is very high quality most of it ends up on farm land but residents who are keen to give the soil in their own garden a boost can take a bag or two and a shovel to the Waterbeach site and fill up with compost.

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