Big Old Compost Heap

A whopping 6.7m tonnes of food are chucked away each year, according to WRAP (the Waste and Resources Action Programme, a DEFRA-funded body). Fussy kids, over-purchasing, not paying attention to best before dates and the wrong storage temperatures were the most common reasons - and all this adds up to almost one-fifth of household domestic waste!

This is important for a number of reasons - decreasing landfill capacity, the greenhouse gases caused from as the food decomposes in landfill and the energy needed to transport and store all this excess food that is simply wasted. At least the surveying has highlighted that around a third of all UK households compost regularly - I wonder what Residential Services might say if I started a compost heap on the bit of grass in front of my house?