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It was great to meet contributor Alison yesterday who also composts at home but refers to that as ‘feeding the possums’ 🙂 I feel the same way about my attempts to grow vegetables in the backyard sometimes. The compost bin that the HCC collections feed into has been built with security in mind. It’s going…

Any organic waste collection service has to consider the probability of some unpleasant odours from time to time although unlike a ‘night soil’ collection this is far from inevitable! The worst thing that you can do with any decaying organic matter is wrap it up in plastic. This traps in liquids and excludes air and…

Last weekend I went along to the North Ainslie Primary School sustainability fair. I met Jennifer from SEE-Change there and she very generously let me promote the HCC with some flyers. If you saw the flyers there then I’d love to know! Jennifer was very helpful in other ways, encouraging me to get the word…

It looks like the new flyer at the Hackett shops, and perhaps the ones I left at the North Ainslie Primary School sustainability fair, are working their magic! The HCC has new contributors this week 🙂 Luckily, I turned over a section of the compost heap last weekend in preparation. The compost bin consists of…

Yes, but probably for a limited time only! At the moment managing our compost heap and some local waste collection is quite feasible to carry out in my spare time even though I also work full time. And I’m happy to do it! There are commercial organic waste collection services operating in Canberra, but these…

The sad thing about helping my friends set up their new compost heap is that their family of 5 was my best source of kitchen waste. I have been picking up multiple buckets from them regularly. Their desire to compost on site is great, and I would love to replace their feedstock source with one…