Cool People Compost.

Composting is extremely cool. Really. Its kind of like recycling plastic bottles and glass jars - making rubbish into lovely, new things. But the lovely new thing that comes out of a compost bin is wonderful, wonderful gorgeous soil that can go in your garden. Its full of nutrients and makes your plants grow big, healthy and pretty. Very useful if you have your own vegetable patch for example.

Putting vegetable peelings, banana skins, tea bags, grass cuttings and dead flowers into a compost bin instead of in your rubbish is also a great way to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. When you put these organic (that means biologically-based and not man-made here, instead of 'not covered in pesticides') materials into your normal rubbish, they go into landfill and are one of the main causes of the relase of methane from landfill sites as they decompose. Put them in a compost bin instead!

http://www.recyclenow.com/home_composting tells you where you can get a nice cheap compost bin to put in your garden. You can also get *Accessories* like a kitchen caddy. This is a little box that sits under your sink, or on top of the fridge, or somewhere on display if you really love it, that you collect all your vegetable peelings and teabags etc in, and then you take it out to the big compost bin outside when its full. Saves you having to go outside 20 times a day just because you peeled a carrot or dead-headed a house plant. However it can be annoying having to wash out the caddy. So my Mum (hello Mum) uses these bags from Lakeland Plastics - http://www.lakeland.co.uk/product.aspx/!21046, which are completely biodegradable. They line your caddy and stop it getting manky and then fully decompose when you put the bag on the compost heap. I think they are made from corn starch or some such wonderful substance that isn't plastic (thus reducing the manufacture of plastic, thus reducing our consumption of oil...)