A STUDY into setting up a community composting scheme in Calstock is to be carried out with backing from the parish council.
A composting project was highlighted in the parish plan as something the community wished to see up and running in the future.
Community interest company Tamar Grow Local has written to the parish council asking for its support to look into the feasibility of such a project and this was agreed at a meeting last week.
Mr Selman told the Times it was very early days: 'We have some support from Cornwall Waste Action to look into the project. The whole issue of waste and composting is full of legislation and requirements that we would have to adhere to so we need to find out whether and how it would work in Calstock.'
Tamar Grow Local, which promotes local produce in the Tamar Valley, recently acquired an allotment site to give people in the parish without gardens a chance to get involved in growing their own vegetables and flowers.
'We would like to link the composting with the allotment site or some other site where we can use the compost,'added Mr Selman. 'If it is used by a particular enterprise on the same site we do not have to transport it once it is composted and that makes things a lot simpler.'
Mr Selman said many people in the parish, especially those living in Calstock, had no room for a wormery let alone a compost heap yet they wanted to recycle their green kitchen waste. The scheme would also extend to garden waste.