From September 2007, over 37,000 residents living in Chichester, Midhurst, Petworth, Easebourne, Tangmere, Boxgrove, Oving, Lavant, Fishbourne, Mundham, Runcton and Merston will have access to the service, representing more than two thirds of all households in the District. Over 1,000 applications for the new service have already been received, with more joining each week.

In September 2006, Chichester District Council launched its green bin composting service to the Bournes and Manhood Peninsula areas of the District, providing residents with wheeled bins. By the start of the service, over 2,300 households had joined the service. Since that time, a further 800 have signed up. Now 1 in 6 homes use the service and so far, more than 900 tonnes of garden waste have been collected and composted.

The garden waste collected is transported locally to the Woodhorn Group in Tangmere, where it is turned into compost and sold under the Earth Cycle brand.

"The first service introduction was very popular and our customer targets have already been exceeded. We hope the second phase will be equally as popular. This new service will help reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and will boost the Council's recycling rate to over 40% by 2009," said Councillor Pieter Montyn, the District Council's Environment Portfolio Holder.

Residents still wishing to use the service are advised to complete and return their application forms (which they should already have received), as soon as possible. Should anyone require another copy of the application form, they should contact Chichester District Council's Service Development team, on (01243) 534619, or email This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

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