Bag your free compost during giveaways in May

East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s waste and recycling team will once again be holding its popular compost giveaways, with 5,000 bags available over eight events across the area, starting on Monday, May 11.

The team will be at Carnaby council depot, Carnaby Industrial Estate, Lancaster Road on Saturday, May 23 at 10am, when residents can collect two free bags of compost.

Residents are asked not to queue at the venue beforehand or they may be turned away for safety reasons.

Around 60 tonnes is expected to be given out – all of which has been recycled into compost locally from the food and garden waste people put in their brown bins throughout the year.

In February, the council began rolling out weekly brown bin collections of food waste for two-thirds of the East Riding, with the remaining households joining in February next year.

Councillor Paul West, the council’s cabinet member for environment and transport, said: “We’re pleased to bring our compost giveaways back for May as they are always a big hit.

“East Riding residents have always been brilliant at supporting our recycling schemes, and that includes the recent launch of our weekly food waste collections, and we very much appreciate that.”

Brown bins can be used to recycle all cooked and uncooked food, out-of-date food, peelings, plate scrapings, bones, meat, bread, eggshells, teabags and small amounts of sauces and gravies, as well as garden waste too such as grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, small branches, leaves, flowers and weeds.