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Both are designed to reduce your weekly bin content as demonstrated by some of the articles in our blog below. Either pick the Green Johanna to create compost from anything from garden cuttings to leftover food, or go with the Green Cone for organic food disposal. In addition to these units, we can also provide you with a complete range of accessories and green products to enhance your recycling.
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The Lowdown on the Green Cone
In your kitchen fill the Green Cone caddy with all your organic kitchen waste. When convenient, empty the caddy into the Green Cone in your garden.In a sunny, close-to-hand spot like a flowerbed or vegetable plot. Do not put your Green Cone in a cold, dark, wet place...
The Lowdown on the Johanna
A large proportion of garden waste and food scraps collected by local authorities in the UK end up being disposed of in landfill. If you compost you could be helping to reduce the amount of waste buried. Allowing it to break down in a composter is more beneficial to...
Types of Composting Materials
Browns are any plant material that is brown, and includes fall leaves, dried grass, wood products, paper and straw. Greens are – you guessed it- green. It includes fresh grass clippings, freshly picked weeds, plant clippings and most kitchen scraps.
Green Johanna at Lily’s Bistro
A couple of weeks ago I assembled a Green Johanna in the small courtyard of Lily's, a social enterprise charity in Canterbury. This will replace the food waste bin that Veolia charge nearly £500 a year to empty. It allows Zoe Mcnulty Rodda and her team to turn their...
Recycle leaves
Are You a Leaf Peeper? Are you guilty of this? Does the autumn bring the leaf peeper out of you? Many of us that love the outdoors and are avid gardeners are most likely to be a leaf peeper. So what exactly is a leaf peeper? It is the name given to people who chase...
Be like a tree and start recycling waste
Autumn Colour is Good for your Health. Surveys suggest that the majority of people viewing autumn colours feel that their mood changes for the better. We cannot imagine anyone viewing the natural golds, crimsons, oranges and purples that the various tree species…
Reduce household waste like the new Fiver?
Britain is Reducing its Household Waste for a Fiver. How so? The new five-pound note has been causing a stir ever since the first ones were printed in September. Whether you can sell it on and make a windfall profit or whether you can destroy it are ironically the…
Identify ways to reduce household waste
The Harlequins Heist. Do your Ladybirds have black or red wings? Do they have black or red
spots? This might sound all very trivial and unimportant, but this subtle difference should be of interest. Our lovely ladybird and its environment are under threat of a Harlequin…
Corals: a master of recycling
Corals Covering our Crimes. We pollute the sea with our manmade sunken vessels, weapons of warfare and general junk. How is nature recycling and dealing with our bad habits? In some places of the ocean, these dumped vehicles have been turned into an underwater paradise…
Reduce Household Waste
Banquet Binned. What did wedding guests think when they heard they had just been served a bridal banquet that was heading for the landfill. It was revealed to this wedding party that the food they had eaten was not food taken from the bin; it was only heading for the…
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