Philippa Forrester
Home composting is set to become the new recycling must-do and I’m thrilled to be lending my support. It’s not often that you get something for nothing in this world, but simply by recycling your fruit and vegetable peelings, along with tea bags and eggshells, you can produce a great garden fertiliser - absolutely free!
Philippa Forrester
Philippa found success with BBC programmes such as Robot Wars and Tomorrow’s World and will be working with us to encourage and inspire more people throughout the UK to start composting their kitchen and garden waste.
With an Ecology and Conservation degree, Philippa holds environmental issues close to her heart and has always been an avid recycler. Along with her husband, wildlife cameraman Charlie Hamilton-James, and their two young sons, she will be encouraging friends and family to take up composting.
As a mother of two, Philippa recognises the importance of creating a cleaner environment for future generations. Home compositing is an activity for all the family; kids will love getting outside in the fresh air collecting twigs and leaves, as well as turning the compost to help its progress.
We have great plans for Philippa this year and will be working together to spread the home composting word. Philippa will be sharing her personal experiences as a home composter as well as writing a seasonal column, so make sure that you keep up to date on her progress by visiting the site regularly.
December
When I took up composting, everything I heard and read on the Recycle Now website made it all seem so simple. However, I must confess I have always had a little voice in the back of my mind which I haven’t been able to ignore.
“Composting isn’t really for you” it said. “You are the modern generation… you have blonde highlights and children and worry about your lip gloss… you’re a working woman… compost is for gardening experts, older people in touch with their garden…”
But now, after a year of home composting, I can toss my highlighted tresses aside, apply more lipgloss and be confident that saving all my kitchen and garden waste for my compost bin is no longer restricted to the green fingered enthusiast.
More and more of us are realising the benefits. Everybody is getting involved; from glamorous single mums, to jet-setting singletons, to married couples; the young and fashionable are increasingly realising the importance and benefits of recycling. I want to do my bit to help the environment by reducing the amount of household waste my family sends to landfill.
Having diverted all our biodegradable waste to the compost bin for the last year I can say with confidence that it is the easiest and best thing we’ve ever done for the environment. So, why don’t you join the composting revolution and treat a loved one or even yourself to a compost bin this year for Christmas? You never know, you might even start enjoying yourself!