Free compost giveaways are back for September

The ever-popular free compost giveaways will be back in September for their second round this year. 

East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s waste and recycling team will be visiting eight sites in Beverley, Preston, Goole, Hornsea, Pocklington, Withernsea, Driffield and Carnaby, from September 13 to 27. 

East Riding residents are invited to come along and collect two free bags of compost, which has all been recycled from the garden and food waste people put in their brown bins.

The council handed out 5,000 bags of compost for free in the last giveaway events held in May.

Councillor Paul West, the council’s cabinet member for environment and transport, said: “I’m always amazed at how popular our compost giveaways are every year. Our residents really love them.

“And we appreciate all the work they do throughout the year, sorting their waste into each bin, and making the East Riding one of the top recycling areas in the country.”

All contents collected from people’s brown bins get recycled into compost by the Biowise plant in Willerby – where the giveaway compost comes from.

Brown bins can take grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, small branches, leaves, flowers and weeds, all cooked and uncooked food, peelings, plate scrapings, bones, bread, meat, eggshells and small amounts of soups, sauces and gravies.

The free compost giveaways will be at:

• Saturday 13 September from 10am – Beverley, council depot, Annie Reed Road, HU17 0LF

• Monday 15 September from 4.30pm – Preston, Lelley Fields Crematorium, Sproatley Road, HU12 8FX

• Wednesday 17 September from 4pm – Goole, West Park, DN14 6UU

• Friday 19 September from 4.30pm – Hornsea, Freeport, Rolston Road, HU18 1UT

• Monday 22 September from 5pm – Pocklington, Wolds Gliding Club, Hodsow Lane, YO42 1NP

• Wednesday 24 September from 4pm – Withernsea, Pavilion Car Park, Station Road, HU19 2QA

• Friday 26 September from 4pm – Driffield, Driffield Showground, Kelleythorpe, YO25 9DN

• Saturday 27 September from 10am – Carnaby, council depot, Carnaby Industrial Estate, Lancaster Road, YO15 3QY.

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

The compost is best used as a soil improver.