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Food and garden waste

Find out how you can compost at home, or the other options available if home composting is not for you.

It's important to remember that food and garden waste in landfill rots, rather than composting – producing harmful methane gas, and all the goodness of the food and garden waste is lost in the sealed landfill. 

Love your compost workshops
Find out about our Love Your Compost workshops, and make composting work for you. We’ll even give you a $40 voucher...
Other things you can do with organic waste
If home composting isn’t for you, there are other options to ensure your food or garden waste is composted.
Compost bins
Traditional home composting, but it can be a little different to what you've always thought. Find out how to create a...
Worm farms
Worm farms use composting worms (eg, tiger worms) to eat through a mixture of food scraps, garden waste, paper and...
Bokashi
Bokashi ferments or “pickles” your food waste with the help of a powdered culture. This fermentation decomposes food...
Composting dog poo
Find out how you can deal with your dog’s poo, rather than using plastic to pick it up, or sending it to landfill.
Composting weeds
Some weeds have roots, seeds or bulbs that can survive traditional home composting and will keep growing even from small...
Updated 7 August 2024