Maidenhead & Windsor

Ascot resident Lisa Hill has proved that she’s on to a Windsor and Maidenhead winner when it comes to composting her kitchen waste.

The young mum has been announced as the Windsor and Maidenhead Royal Borough’s winner of the Recycle Now Home Composting Golden Bin competition, collecting £100 of garden centre vouchers, donated by DHL the logistics company that delivers compost bins for the borough’s recycle at home campaign.

Lisa ordered her compost bin during Compost Awareness Week earlier this year and her name emerged the lucky winner of a bin, complete with giant gold bow, which was delivered by the Windsor and Maidenhead borough’s waste awareness officer Ankit Rao. Ankit said: “Lisa will now be able to recycle up to one third of her household waste by home composting, helping to achieve the council’s target of diverting waste from landfill. What’s more, by composting at home she will also be able to make a great garden fertiliser.”

Lisa said she was delighted with her unexpected composting bonus: “I am very green. I buy lots of organic produce and I puree vegetables for my baby, with the result I had lots of peelings that I didn’t want to put in my wheelie bin. A compost bin is a great way of getting rid of fruit and veg peel as well as tea bags, egg shells and grass and I can use the resulting compost in my garden.”

Lisa, mum to eight-month old Jake, says she will use her garden centre vouchers to buy some nice pots and plants for her Ascot garden.

Cllr Paul Etherington, chairman of the Windsor and Maidenhead sustainability panel, added: "Lisa's commitment to composting is a terrific example to us all and a useful reminder of what each household can do in addition to recycling glass, paper and cans each week."

Those who missed out on the Windsor and Maidenhead Compost Awareness Week offer need not fear – cut price bins are available to buy throughout the year for as little as £8 (including delivery) thanks to a special discount offer negotiated by the Royal Borough. More information on how to get a cut price composter is available on www.rbwm.gov.uk or by calling 01628 683800.

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead