This year's campaign, which is part of an international initiative to promote composting, officially began on Sunday (May 2) and runs until Saturday (May 8), with the theme 'Give It A Grow'.
It aims to encourage people to try something new such as home composting and also to get those who already compost to add more materials from their household waste to their composting pile.
While in the past the event has had significant national leadership from the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), the government-funded body is understood to be taking more of a back-seat in openly promoting this year's event due to restrictions on its activities in the lead-up to the General Election.
However, information is available on WRAP 'Recycle Now' campaign site, which explains that this year's campaign “aims to encourage us all to try something different, and extend our behaviour into new activities”.
As well as promoting home composting, the campaign also aims to encourage people to use peat-free compost and suggests wormeries as an alternative to composting for people with limited space.
And, materials are also available via the site to help councils, companies and other organisations run events during the week, which is also endorsed by the sector's trade body, the Association for Organics Recycling.
Composting bins
Among the events being held nationwide this week, the Surrey Waste Partnership – which represents Surrey county council and 11 district and borough councils – has temporarily reduced the price of the composting bins it sells from
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