Food waste feeds into environmental project

LOCHABER Environmental Group has launched a new project – Go, Grow and Glow.

Over the past year the group has helped people in the area to turn their food waste into compost as part of the Lochaber Energy and Waste Project.

The new project will continue to offer home composting starter kits and will run from now until March 2020, again funded by the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund project.

The Lochaber Energy and Waste Project saw more than 80 households received a free home composting starter kit, with each household composting, on average, 180kg per year, diverting nearly 15 tonnes of food waste from landfill.

Each year this saves 10 tonnes of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere, which, in real terms, is equivalent to the amount carbon absorbed by 1,800 trees in a year.

One participant said: ‘I take satisfaction from seeing the bin fill and the material break down. It will be rewarding to grow my own veg from my own compost.’

The Go, Grow and Glow project will not only help people grow their own food, it will also teach them how to repair bikes and save energy at home.

For a free home composting starter kit, get in touch with Lochaber Environmental Group by phoning 01397 700090 or email: info@lochaberenviro.org.uk