Fact File

Apart from fibre and water, grass also contains some minerals, vitamin A and sometimes vitamin D.

Grass Cutting

• If there's something overgrown
• In the neighbourhood,
• Who you gonna call?
• Grass Busters!

Madeley Parish Council offers a free grass cutting service. For those unable to undertake the task themselves, our very own dynamic duo, Dave and Brian, will ensure the job is carried out quickly and efficiently.

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Composting

Many people believe that garden waste is the only thing that you can put in a compost bin, but there is much more that you can enrich your compost with.

Greens Items:

• Tea Bags

• Grass Cuttings

• Vegetable peelings, salad leaves and fruit scraps

• Old flowers and nettles

• Coffee grounds and filter paper

• Spent bedding plants

• Rhubarb leaves

• Young annual weeds

Brown Items

• Corrugated cardboard and newspaper (scrunched up)

• Toilet & Kitchen roll tubes

• Dry leaves, twigs and hedge clippings

• Straw & hay

• Bedding from vegetarian pets

• Ashes from wood, paper and charcoal

• Sawdust & wood chippings

• Wool

• Cotton threads & string

• Feathers

• Vacuum bag contents

• Old natural fibre clothes (cut into pieces)

• Tissues, paper towels & napkins

• Shredded documents

• Corn cobs & stalks