International Composting Awareness Week

It’s International Composting Awareness Week and the Bundaberg Regional Council is encouraging residents to think about alternative ways for disposing of food scraps.  So what are your ideas???? I have some of my own.  I think we should be encouraged to compost whatever we can.  In a perfect world I would love for the Council to collect food scraps and turn them into luscious compost for us to use in our gardens…..but I think we are some way off for this to happen.

I do not think it would be too hard though for us to increase the amount of compost bins in backyards, I think people just need to be made aware of what to do and how to do it.

According to Council’s latest audit of household waste on average about one quarter of our wheelie bins are filled with kitchen waste.

When organic materials like food scraps are buried in landfill it increases greenhouse emissions through the production of methane gas. Most of this organic waste can be recycled through composting.  This would not only benefit the environment and reduce the strain on Council waste facilities but ensure the nutrients in the food scraps are recycled and used to improve the soil quality in our gardens.

So who is excited and who is up for giving composting a go?  I have a composing bin in my yard I just need to reactivate it.  Stay tuned and I’ll let you know how we go.

You can find out more about councils policies on composting at Council’s Waste and Recycling Services

This year the International Composting Awareness Week is being held from Monday, May 4 to Sunday May 10. It is an initiative of the Centre for Organic Research & Education aimed at improving awareness and importance of compost as a valuable organic resource and to promote compost use, knowledge and products.