‘People feel a sense of ownership’: the growth of community composting

(R-L) Shelley Tester, Greg Pilley and Kate Cole at the scheme where people can have their garden waste turned into compost. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian

By Jessica Murray – 23 Jan 2025

Instead of burning or transporting their garden waste, residents of an English village built their own composting site

In the village of Thrupp, where houses are spread out over steep winding roads in the narrow Frome Valley, it’s difficult for lorries to get through to collect garden waste…

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