Hot composting units for polytunnel project

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The polytunnel project being developed by Kilcullen Community Action will include 'hot bin' composting units, the organisation's recent meeting was told, writes Brian Byrne.

Such composters heat the garden waste and produce compost up to 30 times faster than the unheated systems.

Project leader Eoin Houlihan said it is hoped to get the tunnel in place in October, on a site provided at a nominal lease by Tony and Geraldine Gahan.

Noting that last year the Kilcullen In Bloom project began using peat-free compost, he said eight of the composting units will be part of the installation. The polytunnel will initially be used to trial growing plants for KIB, he said.

The projected cost of the initiative is €10,000, and an application is being made to the Kildare Leader Partnership for 75pc funding. A prize of €1,000 won by Eoin Houlihan and James Byrne for their presentation of the project to a Climate Action course is also being used to help fund it.

In her report to the recent AGM, KCA chair Ann Cashman said that, when completed, the advantages of the project will be seen 'for a long time to come'.

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