Glencoe 

The Glencoe site has been open since 2005. It gives the local community the chance to compost their garden material.  Located at the entrance to Glencoe Village and screened behind a stone wall with a picnic site and community garden to either side. It can lay claim to one of the most beautiful view's in Scotland looking out across Loch Leven.  The site is run as a drop off site. No collection service is being run at the moment.  Access can be made through the side gate which is left unlocked.  Please read the labels on the receiving bays and empty your material into the appropriate one. 

Benefits:

Composting keeps valuable organic resources in the local community.  It keeps it  from going to landfill and produces a useful product - soil conditioner - which can be used for adding organic matter and structure to your soil or it can be used as a mulch.  

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Compost bags are available - please ask.

Put your garden material into the labelled bays: 

1.  Grass Cuttings

2.  Hedge trimmings/small woody material

3.  Larger woody material 

Any help from volunteers is much appreciated.   

Last year we processed over 20T of community garden waste. This  is composted in wooden bins or windrows and by the following year we have made our own "free"  source of compost soil improver for the community to use in their gardens and village tubs.    

 WHY BOTHER?                                

Composting 'green' waste (biodegradable, organic waste) is good for many reasons. It reduces the size of your waste bin, so means less transport is needed to move household waste. It gives you fine, home made compost so you don't need to buy it in.  It also removes some of the most damaging, greenhouse-gas-causing, and reduces waste going to landfill sites.

About a third of the waste sent to landfill in the UK is biodegradable organic matter.  This is made up of food , paper, cardboard, textiles, and garden waste. In a landfill site, these materials will be broken down (decomposed) by microbes to produce a mixture of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane. 

Methane is a very damaging greenhouse gas. It is produced in 'anaerobic' conditions. This means that there is not much oxygen present. The emission into the atmosphere of large amounts of methane can be avoided by not sending lots of biodegradable waste to landfill. Instead, it can be composted at home or at a community level. 

By composting our garden and vegetable waste at home and at the community sites we can reduce  the use of peat products in our own gardens. The current extensive use of peat products contributes to the destruction of peat bogs and peat bog habitats. Peatlands are an important store of carbon.