F.A.I.R. is your local recycling group dedicated to protecting and improving the local environment by encouraging and developing the 3 R's.
Reduce - Reuse - Recycle within the Fort Augustus and Invermoriston Area.
The group were granted charitable status by OSCR (Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator) in August 2007 with the charitable purpose of
"......the advancement of environmental protection or improvement"
A F.A.I.R. proposal
Thanks to so many of you who returned F.A.I.R. fliers about garden waste. It seems that most householders are able to compost some waste themselves and quite a few manage to recycle it all but the overwhelming number who replied were in favour of a community composting site
Some who didn’t reply may be wondering why we should bother. After all, we have a perfectly good waste disposal system, don’t we? (It’s called a wheelie bin!) But, as the children in the Nursery School would no doubt be able to tell us, putting green stuff into landfill is NOT a Good Thing and the pupils higher up the school would no doubt be able to give us the scientific explanation for this. In addition, this area doesn’t have the best soil in the country and we could actually do with all the waste we produce rotted down and returned as compost to our own gardens.
So, we’d like to push on. Where would the best site be? It needs to be accessible to vehicles and not too close to any houses. Going by other sites in Lochaber, we are looking for an area of 250 – 500 square metres, depending on what facility people would like to see here. How it develops and where is not something to be decided by just a few people. If you would like to have your opinions taken into consideration at this early stage or if you could offer or suggest a site, please contact
