A series of compost giveaways held across the East Riding were a big hit with residents once again.
Drivers queued up at eight events run by East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s waste and recycling team to each collect two free bags of the soil improver.
Around 5,000 bags were handed out, a total of 60 tonnes of compost, which had all been recycled locally from the food and garden waste local people put in their brown bins throughout the year.
During May, the team visited sites in Pocklington, Beverley, Preston, Goole, Hornsea, Carnaby, Withernsea and Driffield.
Staff from the council’s waste and recycling, refuse, street cleaning and grounds and forestry teams all pitched in to hand out the bags.
Councillor Paul West, the council’s cabinet member for environment and transport, said: “We’ve held these giveaways for a number of years now and I’m really pleased they were as popular as ever this year.
“It’s our way of giving something back for all the efforts local residents make in recycling their rubbish in their brown and blue bins.
“They are helping the East Riding stay as one of the top performing areas in the country for recycling waste.”
In February, the council began rolling out weekly brown bin collections of food waste for two-thirds of the East Riding, with the remaining households joining in February next year.
Brown bins can be used to recycle all cooked and uncooked food, out-of-date food, peelings, plate scrapings, bones, meat, bread, eggshells, teabags and small amounts of sauces and gravies, as well as garden waste too such as grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, small branches, leaves, flowers and weeds.
