Tony Archer
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Community Composting in AberdeenshireHi everyone! Iam the community compost project officer at Aberdeen Forward (local environmental charity) and I have been working on trialing some community based composting projects to deal with garden waste in Aberdeenshire. At the moment we operate 5 sites which serve 14 communities and currently provide a green bag collection which is a membership based scheme. I am always looking for volunteer help for a variety of tasks so please get in touch if this interests you. Iam really interested in getting a steering group together for some project developments in Aboyne & Tarland areas as well as St Cyrus and Inverbervie so if anyone is able to help in those areas let me know.
We also do collections in Insch,Chapel o Gairoch, Pitcaple Oldmeldrum, Methlick, Peterhead, Johnshaven, Drumoak and Banchory. Again anyone in those areas who want to find out more get in touch.
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Smooth Hound
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wildgarlic
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Great idea - welcome to Neeps Tony!
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Forget-me-Not
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WelcomeWelcome to Neeps.
Beth
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gussyboy
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I was at the Aboyne Community Council AGM where Tony was doing his presentation.
Great idea and well presented, however the Council were not exactly jumping up and down with excitement about it. They don't jump up and down about anything much from what I see.
This needs support from the ground up, not from a bunch of time-servers who wouldn't know a good idea if it came up and bit them. ( pardon my frustration, but I have no axe to grind unless it gets in the way of genuine community action ).
This is a call-out to people on Neeps and people they know who might be interested in getting involved in this.
The Tarland half of this equation have hit the ground running. We could be doing the same.
A QUIET note to Toni; Aboyne Community Council have control of £60,000 raised by the community for a skate park which was never built and I have heard nothing about puiblic consultations as to it's use!
Mibbe we don't have to depend on 'volunteers' after all?
Good luck Toni and welcome to Neeps!
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Fia
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newbies 
There was talk of community composting in Braemar a few years back...
It seems crazy to me that this kind of scheme wasn't rolled out with the better-late-than-never council recycling.
Can stuff you can't easily compost yourself (e.g. couch grass, many grass clippings and ground elder) compost down in a larger system?
Can I suggest a thread is started in RRR?
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Ina
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What kind of project developments do you have in mind for Inverbervie/St. Cyrus? (I attended the event at Beholm Mill with Chris last year...)
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Maria
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Gussyboy wrote | Quote: | | A QUIET note to Toni |
Did you hear that Toni? I like gussyboys version of quiet more than the usual one. 
to neeps Toni. Look forward to seeing you around the forum.
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gussyboy
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ACC AGMErm... before I get lynched, It's NOT the Aboyne Community Council who have the £60,000.
It's Mid-Deeside Scotland. Deepest apologies. 
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Tony Archer
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| Ina wrote: | | What kind of project developments do you have in mind for Inverbervie/St. Cyrus? (I attended the event at Beholm Mill with Chris last year...) |
Hi Ina
Over the next year I need to get volunteer groups in both bervie & st cyrus to engage with the project in a similar fasshion to the johnshaven project. Johnshaven has 20 locals who have signed up to do a rota for collecting the garden waste bags on a Saturday (fortnightly) morning and take them to the compost site at Wairds Park. There they off load the waste and build a compost heap as well as work on the small Community garden patch attached to the compost site. They also sieve the finished compost into bags and deliver around the village to gardeners who request the compost in exchnge for a small donation to the volunteers tea fund!
regards
Tony
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Tony Archer
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Re: ACC AGM | gussyboy wrote: | Erm... before I get lynched, It's NOT the Aboyne Community Council who have the £60,000.
It's Mid-Deeside Scotland. Deepest apologies. |
Thanks Gus.
Good to meet you last week. Thanks for the support and I will be knock on the above door in due course...
Tony
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Tony Archer
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| Fia wrote: | newbies
There was talk of community composting in Braemar a few years back...
It seems crazy to me that this kind of scheme wasn't rolled out with the better-late-than-never council recycling.
Can stuff you can't easily compost yourself (e.g. couch grass, many grass clippings and ground elder) compost down in a larger system?
Can I suggest a thread is started in RRR? |
The trials we have been running in 14 communities have been going the past 2 years and have been done at a level that we as a charity could cope with given our resources. The Council have been very supportive but there is a council policy not to provide garden waste collections in Aberdeenshire due to the scale of the spending that would be needed to provide such a service across such a large county. The Community composting project is more about giving those communities that want to deal with the issue themselves, in an envrionmentally friendly way, the opportunity to do so.
So rather than it being a big role out to all it requires a bit of effort from the communities themselves to engage with it. At the end of this year those areas where communities have not engaged with the project will probably lose the service so that we can offer it to others on the waiting list.
The compost collection takes all green waste including couch etc. We do hot composting, rather than cold composting which most householders do at home, which involves getting higher temps which kill off weed seeds and roots.
regards
Tony
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