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Composting food and garden waste
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Composting food and garden waste
The garden and food waste from your green-top bins is turned into good quality compost.
Waste transfer
We transport the garden and food waste from your kerbside to the waste transfer station in Thamesmead.
At the transfer station, the waste is:
tipped into a special holding bay
loaded onto a bulker.
Composting plant
The bulker transports the waste to a composting plant in Sittingbourne, Kent.
The plant processes your garden and food waste and turns it into good quality compost.
What next?
The Council is looking at ways to develop a similar processing plant in Greenwich to handle the borough's garden and food waste.
If the project goes ahead, it is likely that the facility will be built and operational by 2011.
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Food and garden waste collection
Mixed dry recycling process
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