Composting Properly Begins
Our composting and food waste initiatives have officially begun, and this is truly a cause for celebration! It marks a significant step towards a brighter and more sustainable future for our community. By embracing these practices, we're not only reducing waste but also fostering a culture of responsibility and care for our environment. Together, we can make a difference, cultivate our gardens, and inspire others to join us on this journey toward sustainability. Let's celebrate this achievement and continue working towards a greener tomorrow!
It’s well-known that the future of agriculture is concerning and in need of change. The global population is growing at about 1 percent per year, with some countries experiencing even faster growth. Feeding this increasing population will undoubtedly pose a challenge as time progresses.
At the hub, composting practices have had to be started, waste disposal is now a significant challenge for our charity, the waste removal services have become our problem not the councils. We now use the same types of bins that residential houses have, a blue bin for plastic and metal recycling, a burgundy bin for paper and cardboard, and a green bin for general waste. These wheely bins are emptied on a monthly rota.
Recently, the council sent out a letter requesting that we place a sticker on our brown bin, which we do not actually possess. It's rather amusing that we are allocated only one brown bin (that we wont be asking for) for garden waste, despite managing over two acres of land with ten mature trees. we can only wonder how many wheelie bins the council thinks we will fill each year with grass cuttings and leaves — not to mention the additional leaves falling from the surrounding trees. Of peoples gardens that form our boundary
To effectively manage the land, support the growth of trees, and develop the community garden, we will need soil and fertiliser, if we address the food waste generated in the café and kitchen, as well as during our events. We can turn this into fertiliser in a wormery,There is no way the center could afford "proper disposal," as it has come to be known by locals. Removal of waste of all kind is becoming more and more expensive We aspire to be a school of excellence in reducing food waste. Any leftover food will be directed into our envisioned wormery, which will produce fertilizer for our food-growing gardens and support our zero-waste initiatives.
We need to educate the local community about these shared goals. The current systems for food waste and composting, along with garden waste management in this area, require a complete rethinking. We aim to transition from being wasteful consumers to becoming gardeners for the benefit of our children. Through education and leading by example, we hope to establish ourselves as a school of excellence in Falkirk District, where all our gardens—both public and private—can serve as spaces for biodiversity protection, food growing, and the nurturing of nature-loving, organic, plastic-free foods.
Adding to the problem, current and former agricultural practices are incredibly harmful to the planet. Agribusiness has been identified as a driving cause of climate change, deforestation, and soil degradation. The issue is so significant that we have lost a third of our arable land over the past 40 years.
To address this, we are shifting away from the current system of slaughtering animals and the cruel industrial agribusiness products that dominate local diets. We are starting with a community garden and orchard at our hub. We have made significant progress on our composting area.
One challenge we inherited from the council is the absence of hand dryers or air blowers. Consequently, we need to purchase paper towels for use in the hub's toilets, this formerly generated a substantial amount of waste. In response, we have sourced some organic, biodegradable towels we can compost. Previously, the towels went into black plastic bags that went into the bin and off to landfill, these were a real eyesore for our zero waste group.
Now, we can begin composting these towels along with our food waste, as long as it does not include dairy or dead animals, which still need to go into the general waste bin.
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