Composting

Why compost

Home composting is a great way to use your food peelings and garden cuttings to improve the soil quality in your garden. It is a cheap and natural way of turning items you no longer need into valuable, full of nutrient food to use on your garden. 

Compost is a rich, dark soil-like material you can produce by mixing together natural products such as grass cuttings and vegetable peelings. 

How to get a home compost bin

Ealing residents can buy home composting bins from garden centres and online from various retailers including GetComposting, a company that provides compost bins to many local authorties as part of a national partnership. Other options are:

  • make your own compost bin using unpainted wood
  • have a simple compost heap in your garden without a bin around it
  • find compost bins offered for free on sharing websites and apps

Please do not contact Ealing Council to request a home compost bin.