Composting at home
Composting and wormeries are cheap and easy ways to turn your garden and food waste into nutrients for your garden.
Composting at home
Compost is a rich, dark soil-like material you can produce by mixing together natural produce such as unwanted garden material and organic kitchen waste. It acts as a natural fertiliser and is full of nutrients to use on your garden.
Here's how to start home composting.
Community composting
If you don’t have your own garden, there may be a food growing area on your estate. If you want to set up community composting on your estate, contact recycling@islington.gov.uk.
If you have garden waste, consider subscribing to the garden waste recycling service.
Wormeries
Wormeries are a great way of composting cooked and uncooked food waste. A wormery is your own worm farm in a bin. The worms live amongst the food waste, converting it into rich dark compost and a liquid plant feed.
Learn how to set up and maintain your own wormery.
The council offers a subsidy for compost bins and wormeries. Visit Get Composting website for more information.
Food waste recycling
If you don’t want to compost your food waste or set up a wormery, you can still play a big part in reducing the impact of your leftover food by recycling your food waste.