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45 messages 22/04/2013 at 08:52  I did the Norfolk
Council/Garden Organic Compost Master Course last week and
thought I would share some of the amazing information we were
taught by the wonderful hard working tutors.  The first day they
took us to a landfill site to show what happens when we produce
vast quantities of rubbish and don't compost anything. It was
such a depressing sight; in the middle of beautiful Norfolk
countryside there was this huge mound of bare earth where the
site had been 'capped off' with pipes running out of it to
release the methane and leachate (some horrible liquid produced
by rotting rubbish). They were still using part of the area as
current landfill and all the trees surrounding it were festooned
with dirty plastic bags.  Then they took us to this very new,
clean facility where they do composting on an industrial scale;
all out kitchen waste which in King's Lynn area we have to
separate out plus green waste is compost