When you go to Australia you see the huge amount of space that they have and the distance between the detached homes is indicative of the fact that they have a lot more space than we do. The UK is overpopulated and that is why the government is intent on taking more of our green space.
In fact, homes are so small, that you don't have room to keep recycling indoors at all in most homes, thereby is a difficulty for the councils that are doing their best to encourage recycling of as much as possible. In fact, the local councils are even stopping collection of some recycling.
I don't think that they really thought that through, how do they think that the disabled and elderly are meant to get to the collection points when many of those people don't have cars to get there. Nor can most of them carry the recycling to those collection points.
In the days before chain stores, when poor people lived in houses with gardens with sheds, clearly, there was a lot more room, plus things like milk bottles were glass and reusable. I still remember my gran's and her sisters houses, and their gardens. When they were rehoused, they were put into small top floor flats. They were taken away from the nature of their gardens and put in high rise blocks.
However, this blog post is about "Composting", and I did begin to compost some food outside last summer, although I will do more composting this year. I've already begun, collecting the scraps from fruit and vegetables and have put them in a bucket.
This link lists what to put into the compost heap and it does require air, water and some soil. Of course those that are wishing to live greener, and have less for collection, will engage in the compost revolution if they have some garden space, many don't.
If you don't have a garden, or garden space, then what can people do with the compost once it is created, some could use it to assist their indoor plants with nutrients, although, clearly, you would have to have a lot of plants to take in a year's compost from one person.
It's near on impossible for a family of four if they live in a flat. So architecture is certainly going to have to be looked at so that our people can recycle and compost. People have to have the facilities, the space, and properties have to be made bigger, including social housing, people have to be given their gardens back to encourage more composting and recycling.
http://www.cleanup.org.au/au/LivingGreener/composting.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDtA5HmBF0E
I looked at some plans for a new school building a few months ago, and the top of the building was flat with nothing planned to go on top of it. I asked them "why isn't that space being utilised". At the every least that school could have compost heaps on the top of it. Compost that could then be put into the gardens that surround the school. Architects say that they're building environmentally eco friendly buildings, yet, when you look at their plans, they're not.
The politicians have to be given some reality checks, as our people deserve better! I did notice that due to the dire circumstances of our homeless veterans, the MOD is now providing an emergency helpline. About time too, it took them long enough to do that didn't it.
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