Master Composter

 Lochaber Master Composter Programme

The aim of the Master Composter programme is to encourage people to take responsibility for the waste that they produce, and to give them the support that they need in order to compost their food and garden waste at home. This is being achieved by training volunteers to go out into their local communities and promote home composting, by running workshops, giving talks or helping people on an individual basis.

This programme has been developed as a unique partnership project by the Community Recycling Network: Scotland (CRNS), the Scottish Government, Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and Waste Aware Scotland.

The MC Programme has been running in Lochaber since Autumn 2008. We now have an enthusiastic network of Master Composter volunteers giving talks to groups; visiting primary schools; carrying out local surveys and giving individual help and advice to friends and neighbours around 

Volunteers

To date we have volunteers in Arisaig; Lochaline; Glencoe; Kinlochleven; Glenuig; Acharacle; Spean Bridge; Fort William; Inverlochy; Ardgour; Strontian; Onich; Lochailort and Eigg.  To find a Master Composter in your area click here.

However we still have a few gaps in the Lochaber map, and would like to recruit more volunteers to spread the home composting word.

You don’t need to be an ‘expert’ composter, as we can help you with advice and training. If you are enthusiastic, and keen to get involved in helping to reduce Lochaber’s landfill and play a part in creating a more sustainable community to live in we would like to hear from you.  The aim of the Master Composter Programme is to recruit and train enthusiastic ‘composting’ volunteers to encourage home composting.

For more information on the Master Composter programme visit www.crns.org.uk/index/master-composter

 If you would like to be involved with this programme, or would like to have a chat about composting in general, or visit one of our home demonstration compost bin sites please contact

Liz Paul  on 01397 700090   or e.mail compost@lochaber-environmental-group.org.uk

To download a copy of our Master Composter newsletter click here