Somerset Council Information & News

Here’s a bargain offer to help your garden grow

Somerset Waste Partnership has teamed up with getcomposting.com to provide an exclusive offer of 1,000 home compost bins for as little as £10.

Home composting cuts CO₂ emissions and turns all garden waste and suitable kitchen waste into a free supply of compost to keep your garden blooming year after year.

Two sizes of compost “converters” are included: the 220 Litre is only £10, the larger 330L is just £12.50.

Save even more with the buy-one-get-one-half-price deal for two of the same size. Delivery is £9.99 per order, so why not order two and share delivery with a friend, neighbour or relative?

Voted best “budget buy” in Gardeners’ World Magazine, the bins are made from recycled plastic, require no assembly, and are guaranteed for seven years. Optional base plate available.

For the best home composter results, find a partly sunny site as the sun’s warmth will speed up decomposition. Use a mix of ingredients, with roughly equal amounts of “green” material (grass cuttings, fruit and veg scraps etc) and “brown” materials (woody prunings, autumn leaves etc).

Compost’s worms and “mini-beasts” must breathe – create air pockets with scrunched up kitchen roll tubes or card egg boxes, and aerate the contents by turning it with a garden fork.

Buy your bins at getcomposting.com; and find offer details and helpful composting tips on our website here. 

Got your ‘My Account’ yet? Thousands have already signed up

My Account is the free-and-easy way to manage your waste services online 24/7.

With it, you can report missed collections after 6pm on the due day, check dates, order free recycling boxes and food waste bins, arrange paid-for bulky waste collections, buy garden waste sacks and request garden sack collections, submit reports, and more.

No emails, no calls, no fuss. Sign up now on our website, here.

Recycling sites back to business as usual with shop-style safety

All sites are operating as usual and recycling the full range of materials, with shop-style safety restrictions:

• Gloves worn outside vehicles
• Maximum two people per vehicle
• Strict social distancing
• No site staff manual assistance
• No one with COVID-19 symptoms, or those asked to shield
• Permits system for vans, pick-ups, motorhomes, minibuses and trailers still applies.

PS: Summer hours now – see timetable below – but winter hours from 1 October 2020, with all open sites operating 9am-4pm weekends and 9am-5pm on weekdays.

Details of all recycling sites, from opening times to what is taken, on our website here.