Compost offer to gardeners across Teesdale

PEOPLE in Teesdale are being offered free compost when they sign up for garden waste collections in the new year.
The dale is unique in County Durham in that garden waste is collected by Teesdale Conservation Volunteers, better known as Rotters, on behalf of the county council.
This year they collected 2,200 tonnes of garden waste, some 400 tonnes more than they are contracted for, from about 2,400 households that signed up for the service.
Next year the group is hoping to attract more people to sign up by offering to fill green Rotters bags with free compost when they join up in January.
Martin Bacon, of Rotters, said: “It is important that as many people as possible join up. It isn’t just to provide the service, it allows Rotters to keep going.”
Those who sign up will get 17 collections at their homes between spring and autumn.
The free compost offer is available from Tuesday, January 3, to Saturday, January 7, and again from Monday, January 9, to Friday, January 13.