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Jamie Butterworth

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Council Compost
« on: February 22, 2011, 10:51 »
I keep hearing stories of people phoning up various councils and them delivering a few tons of compost, something i had never thought about doing with wakefield council as they are shockingly bad at most things ::)

 But a walk in the park with my granddad and we saw a huge mountain of compost, presumably from leaf mould and it looked good stuff, he said its been there like that for other 5 years, would it be worth asking to have some do you think?
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Re: Council Compost
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2011, 11:31 »
check out the council's website and see if they promote recycling/composting givaways. The recycling office or the parks and recreation office may be able to advise as well.

Good luck  :)
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Re: Council Compost
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2011, 11:33 »
We get black compost from the central recycling and manure from the Queen's horses, all free.
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Re: Council Compost
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2011, 13:25 »
I don't now much about Wakefield but I do know they have been quite big on greenspace and tree management so give it a go...

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Re: Council Compost
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2011, 22:21 »
Wakefield are one of the best in the country for recycling
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Re: Council Compost
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2011, 08:36 »
I would certainly give it a try. I sourced some for my redesigned back garden last year.Ordered 2 ton & got approx 4 ton (so the van driver said).It cost me £60 for the diesel.But it was tipped on to the drive so it was worth not having to load it into a trailer & then dig it back out.
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