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When I did Dancing on Ice, I really became aware of how important it is to eat healthily and look after your body. With the increase in fruit and vegetables I was eating, the quantity of raw waste like peelings and cores I produced was also increasing considerably, so I decided to take up composting. I noticed almost instantly how much less rubbish I was putting out for the bin-men, and how much waste my household had been sending to landfill before. Recycling on a daily basis makes you feel like you’re taking care of the environment, and now I’m hooked!

Gaynor Faye, Dancing on Ice winner

It’s not often you get something for nothing in this world, but simply by recycling your fruit and vegetable peelings, along with tea bags and egg shells, you can produce a great garden fertiliser - absolutely free.

Philippa Forrester, BBC TV and Radio presenter

We tamper with nature at our peril, and home composting is about limiting the damage we do to the environment on a daily basis. By recycling our waste on our own property, and putting nutrients back into the earth, we take part in a natural cycle that we would otherwise interrupt. I’ve been home composting for years, and I firmly believe that it’s important for everyone to get involved – even if you don’t have a huge garden, you can still use the compost to grow herbs and pot plants. There’s just no excuse not to take part, and it’s fun!

Jenny Seagrove, Actress

I love the idea of home grown vegetables – and I’m a real fan of growing my own potatoes. Spuds can be grown easily in your vegetable patch or even in a patio planter if you don’t have much room.

If you really want to live the good life, then home made compost is the perfect addition to help your potatoes grow. To compost at home all you need is a compost bin and some outdoor space - and with compost bins available in all sorts of shapes and sizes, you should be able to find the ideal one for your patio or garden.

When it comes to Sunday lunch, you can’t beat the taste and satisfaction of a good home grown spud, grown in your own home made compost. And to top it all off, when you put the potato peelings back in to compost bin the cycle starts all over again.

Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2 presenter

Home Composting is a really easy and cost effective way to give your garden the essential nutrients it needs, as well as improving the soil structure.

Chris Beardshaw, BBc, Flying Gardener

Chris Beardshaw on WRAP's Recycled Garden stand at Gardeners World Live 2004

I urge as many people as possible to make a pledge and commit to compost. Amazingly around 30 million tonnes of waste comes from our homes each year! With up to 10 million tonnes of that being biodegradable, home composting is a simple and effective way to help protect the environment - yet only a third of us are doing it.
We also throw away millions of tonnes of garden waste every year. That’s waste equivalent to filling the Royal Albert Hall with grass cuttings, prunings and leaves more than 70 times over that is sent to landfill. Yet those green materials can be successfully recycled and used to make great quality peat-free and reduced peat composts which do a first class job in the garden.

Charlie Dimmock, Celebrity Gardener

I’d always thought of home composting as something that grandfathers did, but it seems that lately home composting has had an image change – and anyone who’s anyone is getting involved. Around one third of the contents of an average household bin can be composted at home. If this waste was sent to landfill, it would break down without oxygen, which produces methane – a harmful greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. However, when you add the same waste to your compost bin, because there is a mixture of items, it breaks down with oxygen due to the air pockets you create and no methane is produced – great news for the environment!

As a weather presenter I have a keen interest in the environment and I think that it is important that we all recycle as much as possible. I really enjoy spending time outdoors and have recently started to home compost. This is an effective way to reduce the amount of rubbish that we normally send to a landfill site, and it also helps keep our environment clean.

Sian Lloyd. ITN Weather Presenter

Having been an avid home composter for over 20 years, it seems second nature to me. Making great compost is a bit like making a cake, with the right ingredients, warmth and moisture, the results are nutritious for our gardens and plants and there is no waste.
There is no need to spend a fortune on soil improvers or bags of compost, with a simple compost bit, kitchen and garden waste you have all you need to make your garden grow naturally, without the need for harmful chemicals.
By composting you are not only converting organic waste into something useful, but by diverting it from landfill you are helping to reduce the creation of methane gas, one of the most potent triggers for climate change.

Penney Poyzer, Presenter of BBC 2 show ‘No Waste Like Home’

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