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Composting in East Sussex

Householders who had never home-composted before, or those who just needed a little support, could contact the Compost Doctors over the phone, by email, at events or at talks and presentations to discuss their composting questions and issues.

At a glance

– Client: East Sussex County Council
– Type of project: Home composting campaign (including flats)
– Duration: 12 months
– Techniques: Face-to-face waste minimisation advice, PR Promotions and marketing

Composting for householders

Without a county-wide kitchen waste collection, East Sussex County Council saw diversion of organic waste from landfill as a key objective. As a result, during 2007 Resource Futures were commissioned to set up a team of Compost Doctors to give practical home composting help and advice to residents across the county. 

 

But what about flats?

In East Sussex, the fact that you live in a flat is not a barrier to composting. Quite the opposite. Residents in flats often want to compost their kitchen waste and have plenty of communal space for composting facilities.The Compost Doctors maximised this potential and tailored their services to help residents of flats to form groups, identify the best composting solutions for kitchen waste and get access to grant money to help with facilities.

Who has benefited?

The Compost Doctors focused on flat blocks in Eastbourne, many of whom are now composting happily and producing their own compost for pot plants, window boxes and communal gardens.

By concentrating on a particular town, a blue print for communal composting has been developed and once reviewed by the Council, the intention is that it will be rolled out across the county.
 

Project Synopses

All change in Torbay!

Resource Futures deliver communications and community engagement activities to ensure successful service change from fortnightly co-mingled to weekly kerbside recycling

Composting in East Sussex

Householders who had never home-composted before, or those who just needed a little support, could contact the Compost Doctors over the phone, by email, at events or at talks and presentations to discuss their composting questions and issues.

Engaging the Residents of North London with Love Food Hate Waste

Resource Futures recruited and managed two embedded Outreach Workers to support the North London Waste Authority’s, WRAP funded, Love Food Hate Waste campaign. During the seven month period, the Outreach Workers organised and delivered over sixty roadshows in supermarkets, businesses, libraries and at community groups, across NLWA’s seven constituent boroughs, to engage more than 3,500 people with the campaign.

News and Events

Community RePaint: A Helping Hand for Hearts and Minds in 2011

In 2011, householders, traders and paint manufacturers donated 343,957 litres of paint to Community RePaint schemes, which then distributed 217,112 litres to community groups and individuals saving 565 tonnes of CO2 – the equivalent of taking 192 cars off our roads - and providing 766 volunteer and training opportunities. The network now has over 65 schemes across the UK with four new schemes about to start at the beginning of 2012.    

Resource Futures helps WRAP understand recent reductions in food waste

Resource Futures has recently helped WRAP to estimate how much household food waste has decreased nationally in recent years, with the recently published “Synthesis of Food Waste Compositional Data 2010” To see the report, click here.