This weekend, the Casa da Cultura da Pobra do Brollón hosted the presentation to residents of the Community Composting System that the government team is launching in the municipal capital with the slogan “Less waste, more life!”.
Composting is a way of converting food and vegetable scraps into natural fertilizer. To compost, you need to mix organic waste with dry woody debris such as prunings, sawdust, leaves, etc. The transformation can be done using a composter, without any type of mechanism or maintenance expense.
In the municipality of A Pobra do Brollón, this system is applied with the installation of 6 community compost bins in the municipal capital as a pilot initiative, following the example of municipalities such as Allariz and Pontevedra, and being pioneers in the province of Lugo in this type of initiative.
The residents received a manual from the council on composting and the cauldrons to take the organic waste from their homes to the composters. The presentation ended with a visit to one of the composters to see how it works in situ, the organic waste is deposited and covered with a structuring agent to prevent bad odors.
A Pobra do Brollón is an eminently rural municipality and has always been very closely linked to the natural environment. The municipality wants to deepen this connection and respect for nature, which is why this system is being installed, which requires the active participation of the more residents, the better. As pointed out by the government team, the objective is to develop a joint experience in which children and adults participate to continue with work to raise awareness about the natural environment that will have an impact on everyone's well-being.
Some of the advantages of community composting will be: savings on fertilizers, savings on garbage collection, reduction of pollution, improvement of soil and plant health and, among other things, improvement of recycling of the rest of the garbage materials.
