Composting

How To Compost Dog Poo Composting your dog’s waste isn’t as straightforward as composting food waste, so we explain the ins and outs of it. There’s an estimated 5.1 million dogs in [...]

Council FOGO bins reduce carbon emissions If just one percent of Australian households diverted food scraps away from landfill, that would be the equivalent of removing 22,655 cars from the road [...]

Life depends on healthy soil Composting organic waste is so important because it improves soil health and strengthens the soil’s resilience to shocks such as drought. Of the 21 million tonnes [...]

Did you know: organic food waste accounts for up to 40% of all household waste going to landfills? When food waste breaks down in landfill it emits the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane [...]

Community composting solutions Grassroots change makers in communities across Australia are collecting food scraps to rejuvenate soil through composting instead of sending it to landfill. To [...]

Vented caddies cut smells and costs FACT: It costs 85% more for councils in Adelaide to send food organic and garden organic (FOGO) waste to landfill versus a green (FOGO) bin.1 FACT: Councils [...]

Composting for climate change Did you know that food waste in Australian landfills produces the same amount of  greenhouse gases as the emissions of Australia’s steel and iron ore industries [...]

Global plastic production tallied 7.8 billion tonnes by 2015 — that’s more than one tonne for every person alive today.  What if 1% of all plastic was made from plants so it could be given back [...]

Is the thought of going to the toilet outdoors enough to put you off camping? It’s a valid concern for both sexes. If you live to 78 years old you’ll spend 92 days in total on the toilet and men [...]

BioBags help to improve soil health BioBags increase diversion of food waste from landfill to organics recycling. This creates more compost to enrich soils with the vital nutrients needed to [...]