Enthusiasm for a community composting scheme is growing by the day.

The new project, set up by Brighton and Hove City Council , the Friends of Dyke Road Park and the city’s Food Partnership, has already attracted 25 households keen to compost their uncooked vegetable peelings, tea bags, coffee grounds and cardboard.

The local authority’s first community composting schemes launched earlier this year in North Laine and Palmeira Square, Hove. Other schemes are due to open at Bevendean Community Garden and Wish Park/Aldrington Recreation Ground.

The aim is to make it easy for people living in the city centre to compost when they don't have room for their own compost bin.