Criw Compostio picks up waste, as well as wood shavings from a carpentry business and used rabbit and guinea pig bedding from pet owners, twice a week.<\/p>\n
It is then taken to a processing site in Machynlleth “so we’re travelling a very short distance” where they have specialised composters.<\/p>\n
“They’re like hot, rat-proof hyper composters that turn it into something that’s very unattractive to pests and such very quickly,” said Steph.<\/p>\n
It take about a year to turn it into compost, which Steph said had just won an award for its quality.<\/p>\n
“Local growers then take that compost, grow food that goes back to the cafes, cafes serve it, waste comes back to us and we turn it back into compost.<\/p>\n
“The frame that we work within means it has to stay local, so we don’t sell it on eBay or Amazon or whatever. It stays within that resources loop.”<\/p>\n
As in every other Welsh county, food waste collections from households, rather than businesses, are mandatory and carried out by Powys council.<\/p>\n
However, Criw Compostio run sessions for households who want to improve the composting they do at home or to improve composting at allotments.<\/p>\n
The majority of their compost users are people growing food to sell “in the Machynlleth markets, to sell in the local whole food shop, to sell directly to local restaurants”.<\/p>\n
Steph said the cost of living crisis had raised interest for individuals looking to grow their own food and allotments were “hot property here”.<\/p>\n
ffin said it was “interesting how much productivity can come from a small garden”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Criw Compostio picks up waste, as well as wood shavings from a carpentry business and used rabbit and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}