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Farmers are turning ‘worthless’ woollen fleeces into compost

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Farmers are turning ‘worthless’ woollen fleeces into compost because prices plunged by more than 60% a kilo after export markets closed amid Covid pandemic The value of sheep wool has plummeted in recent years from 87p a kilo to 33p   Shepherd Stuart Fletcher, 40, from Stonegate, East Sussex, forced to compost  Half of British … Read more

Monty Don slams garden centres for selling compost made from peat

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Monty Don slams garden centres for ‘actively choosing to do harm’ by selling compost made from peat Intensive peat mining is also a known threat to rare and endangered species Britain’s peat bogs also locked in  5.5billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere when they were formed Gardeners urged to stop ‘sticking their head … Read more

Robyn Lawley encourages people to compost with busty bikini photos

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‘I know this is a hard time’: Model Robyn Lawley posts bizarre photos of herself posing in a busty bikini to promote gardening and composting By Daily Mail Australia Reporter Published: 03:42 BST, 4 June 2020 | Updated: 03:42 BST, 4 June 2020 Protests and riots are currently raging across America in the wake of … Read more

Mountains of plants thrown onto compost heap because they cannot be sold during coronavirus lockdown

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The managing director of a plant wholesaler said his firm has lost more than £2.5million-worth of business in the last three months after garden centres were forced to close as part of the coronavirus lockdown. Adrian Marskell, who runs The Bransford Webbs Plant Company in Worcester, in the West Midlands, has had to begin throwing away … Read more

Sales surge up to 1,237% online for tomato seeds and compost

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Sales in products used to grow and make food have soared as shoppers increasingly find themselves in empty supermarket aisles amid coronavirus panic-buying.   Seeds in particular are flying off Amazon’s warehouse shelves, according to the online seller’s figures which reveal as much as a 1,237 per cent spike in the past 24 hours. Anecdotal evidence … Read more

Eco-friendly human compost burials where bodies of the dead reach 55°C and rot away in 30 days

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Eco-friendly ‘compost burials’ where human bodies reach 131 degrees Fahrenheit and rot away in just 30 days, are due to launch next year in America after a successful pilot.  A trial of the process, which saw six dead bodies decompose among wood chips and other material, found that the remains made ‘great worm food’. It … Read more