The individual stamping

Certain actions led by the SMITRED West of Armor can reproduced in a lesser scale. If the incineration by the private individuals of their waste is not advised for environmental reasons, individual stamping, or collective when it is possible, is an interesting option. Indeed, to reduce the weight of the collected waste, it gets a very fertile compost for the gardeners. In some, in shared gardens or collective stamping machines, he can even be a lever to strengthen the social link around a public-spirited project.

The territory of the SMITRED West of Armor counts some 15 000 eco-stamping machines. The compost can be realized outdoors or in tub(ferry,high school diploma) planned for that purpose. Certain Associations of local authorities and Urban area supply free of charge or in reasonable price of stamping machines to those who make it the demand(request). Then inquire!

To make a success its stamping, it is enough to vary the waste, to mix them from time to time, to verify the humidity and in the case of a stamping machine, to avoid loading it with a big quantity of seasonal waste, such as the shearing of lawn, who can serve as mulch.

The materials to be stamped are the waste of gardening (dead leaves, shearings of lawn, dead plants), the waste of cooking (peels, fruits and vegetables, tea bags and coffee marc, shells of egg or moulds) and the waste of house (newspaper paper in pieces, hair and hairs, ashes, paper towels). It is necessary to avoid papers and printed cardboards, oil, granulated weed, bones and not crushed shells of mollusks, among others.

Ideally, the compost is used in spring and in autumn, either spread on the ground, or mixed in the earth.