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Description
Create healthy soil and lower your carbon footprint with this handy guide to composting.
A process at the heart of organic gardening, composting is an easy and rewarding way to connect with nature while improving the health of your soil. Most importantly, composting encourages us to live more sustainably by reusing food waste that would otherwise go to landfill.
In How to Make and Use Compost, composting expert Nicky Scott reveals how and why making compost is so important for healthy soil and the environment, and the best methods for making your own compost. Whether you're composting in a garden or a kitchen, he provides clear guidance on the most appropriate system for your site and explains how different composting systems work, including cold composting, wormeries, bokashi and hot boxes.
This beginner-friendly guide features a handy A–Z to compostable materials, as well as guidance on common composting problems and their solutions. It also details how to compost food waste on a large scale, and how to plan a school or community compost scheme. An extensive list of resources, including websites, organisations, books and where to buy equipment, is also included.
Packed with beautiful photographs and illustrations, unearth the many rewards of composting with this handy step-by-step guide.
Accessibility Information
Additional accessibility information
- EPUB 3.0
- Conforms with the requirements of EPUB Accessibility Spec v1.1
- WCAG level AA
- WCAG v2.2 compliant
- accessibility@bloomsbury.com
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The publication contains no hazards
Support for non-visual reading
- No accessibility features offered by the reading system, device or reading software are disabled or otherwise unusable with the product
- Has alternative text descriptions for images
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- Page list to go to pages from the print source version
- Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
- All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
- Content is enhanced with ARIA roles to optimize organization and facilitate navigation
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Rich content
Language tagging provided
Table of Contents
Part I
- Why make compost?
- How does it work?
- Making successful compost
- Choosing the right composting system
- Composting with worms
- Using your compost
- Community composting
Part II
- A–Z Guide
Part III
- Composting food waste on a large scale
- Composting in schools
Resources
Index
Product details
| Published | Aug 13 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 3rd |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781399422529 |
| Imprint | Green Books |
| Illustrations | Colour photos throughout |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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