18 -- Sunday, August 2, 1998 — North Shore News

LOCAL municipal officials and Greater Vancouver Regional District compost spe- cialists have made great strides in getting homeowners to set up compost bins to recy- cle kitchen waste and garden refuse.

In spite of this concerted effort, there is still a tremendous amount of green waste, particularly lawn clippings, going into the transter station.

For those people who have not, or cannot, install a compost ’in or find they have an excess of lawn clip- pings, there is a solution to their problem: mulch mow- ing.

Leaving the clippings on

a slow release fertilizer when left to decay in the dawn.

Mulch mowing or “grass cycling” reduces the mow- ing time because there are

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no recycle bags to fill and no waste to haul tn the curb on garbage day.

Frequent mowing with a standard power mower will

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Muich mowing proves beneficial

create fairly short ciepings

that will drop down t inte the curtand quickly.

Phe aiden push mower. did a good job OF scattermny clippings buc were dithcult to eperate in long or wet grass.

With the use of new hight weight allovs and plastics, push mowers are coming back into vogue.

The new power mulch: mowers not only cut the blades of grass into shorter pieces bat also Blow them down into the turf where they are out of sight and

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NEWS photo Terry Peters

TAKE off the bag and start “grasscycling” — it reduces green waste at the trans- fer station, and it’s great for your lawn!

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