Compost

What is Compost?

Compost is a mixture of different ingredients used to fertilise and improve the health of soil. It is usually prepared by decomposing plant and food waste and recycling organic materials.

It’s a nutrient rich, dirt-like material that can be used to enrich soil and nourish growth.

Almost anything that comes from the ground can be composted. Cucumber ends, apple cores, carrot peels, cantaloupe rinds, avocado pits, basically any vegetable or fruit waste.

Why is Compost Important?

Composting is a great way to reduce your food waste and contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.

When your food waste goes to landfill, it emits methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change, so composting will halt that process. Moreover, as Compost is a fertiliser, it prevents the need for other chemicals to be added to the soil to fulfil that role.

Other benefits of Compost include providing nutrients to crops, acting as a soil conditioner and introducing beneficial colonies of microbes that help to suppress pathogens in the soil.

Where is Compost Used?

Compost improves soil fertility in gardens, landscaping, horticulture, urban agriculture, and organic farming.

Compost can be used for land and stream reclamation, wetland construction, and landfill cover.

Compost Delivery

Courtesy of our expansive network of owned quarries and large fleet of over 600 commercial vehicles, we’re able to deliver Aggregates quickly and efficiently to domestic, trade and commercial customers throughout Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire and Norfolk.

We are able to supply Compost to sort your bespoke requirements; Loose Loads, Bulk Bags, Small Bags and collection.