They can be transferred by the citizens at the Green Point of Strovolos (behind Leroy Merlin store) or via Municipality’s home service for the collection of pruning, by purchasing special paper bags.
Alternatively, pruning can be composted.
What is Home Composting?
It is the natural process by which the organic waste, fruits, vegetables, leaves, pruning, etc. are transformed into a rich organic mixture that works as a fertilizer.
Organic waste in the presence of oxygen and various microorganisms, release nutrients attached to them and make them available to plants.
What materials can we compost?
- Eggshells, leftovers from salads
- Cereals, rice, flour, bread
- Peels from fruits and vegetables
- Leaves, roots and pruning from the garden
- Coffee filters, ash from fireplace, kitchen paper
- Wood processing residues like sawdust, wood chips
- Nuts and their shells
- Olive pits
- Chaff, rush
- Organic fertilizers (brown soil, leaf soil)
What materials cannot be composted?
- Citrus peels
- Eucalyptus and fig leaves
- Pine needles
- Glossy paper, colored or with ink
- Meat and animal waste
- Oil, dairy
- Plastic, metal objects, chemicals
- Plants affected by diseases
We put the organic materials from our kitchen, together with leaves, branches and some soil from our garden, into the compost bin. We continuously feed our bin with a variety of materials and mix from time to time so that the mixture is enriched with oxygen. The first compost matures in about 3 months and we can use it in the garden or in our pots. The compost will look like wet soil and will have a dark colour.
Earthworms are usually used to speed up the process and you can get them from the suppliers of compost bins.
If these simple instructions are followed, there will be no risk for public health. All pathogenic organisms that may enter the composting mixture cannot survive due to the high temperatures created during the process. It is also odorless
