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The ‘Hackett’ Compost Collective is a bit of a misnomer because you don’t have to be a Hackett resident to contribute! The name is there as more of a legacy and also a reminder that community composting works best on the local scale. Contributor Marie-Helene shows us all that the HCC can help reduce waste…

Howdy HCCers, I’d like you all to meet Ingrid in Downer who has some lovely things to say about getting involved with the compost collective: “Hi, I’m Ingrid and I have been part of the HCC since February 2019, after delightfully stumbling across a poster for the HCC at my local Downer cafe! I moved…

Yesterday I paid a visit to long time HCC contributors, Chris and Leigh in Gunghalin. But isn’t Gunghalin outside of the HCC collection area? That’s true, but Chris and Leigh happen to be very good friends of mine so that makes it easier for me to collect their kitchen scraps regularly. Also, Leigh had been…

Howdy HCCers, meet Peter (he’s the taller one): Peter and his family have their own compost bin but have also been contributing scraps to the HCC for quite a while now. Peter has also donated some large bags of leaves, keeping the HCC well supplied with carbon rich materials. But for the best contribution of…

They say change is as good as a holiday. In this case it was the main compost heap that got a holiday, while Scott and I got a work out. Seeing as the wooden composting bays were getting a bit of a rest recently I took the opportunity to move the whole structure, just to…

What is compost anyway? Can you throw some veggie scraps and dry leaves in a barrel and call it compost? Will appropriate composting processes occur in the revolutionary new composting device that is a barrel with some holes drilled in it?? The answers to all these questions and more below (sort of), but first I’ll…