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Fully updated throughout, How to Make and Use Compost is the definitive beginner’s guide to how to compost food and green waste. 
  
 Compost helps to create and maintain healthy soil, and is the foundation of growing organically. It is also cost-saving, easy and fun, and a fantastic way to learn and connect with nature. Most importantly, composting is beneficial to the environment as it massively reduces the amount of noxious methane gas generated from burying food waste in landfill. 
  
 In How to Make and Use Compost, composting expert Nicky Scott reveals why making compost is so important for healthy soil and the environment, how it works and how to make your own compost. He provides clear guidance on the most appropriate system for your site, whether you’re composting in a garden or a kitchen, and explains how different composting systems work, including cold composting, wormeries, bakashi and hot boxes. 
  
 This practical book features an A–Z guide to what you can and cannot compost, composting techniques, common problems and their solutions. It also details how to compost food waste on a large scale for hotels, restaurants, cafes and other establishments, and shows you 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. 
  
 Beautifully illustrated with photographs throughout, this handy guide is ideal for gardeners as well as those who want to become more sustainable.

How to Make and Use Compost

  • By Mark Gatter & Andy McKee

    An updated third edition of How to Make and Use Compost – a complete guide to how to compost food and green waste.
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  • Book Details

    Imprint: Green Books | Pub date: March 2026 | Format: 235 x 210mm | Extent: 224 pages | Word Count: 55,000 words
  • About the Author

    Nicky Scott is the author of several books on composting and recycling. He advises schools, local authorities and businesses on composting kitchen waste and helps set up community composting groups. The ‘hot box’ composter he developed is widely used for composting food waste.

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