Having just posted about food waste tips through Covid-19, we thought it would be a good time to repost a guideline relating to home composting – and common waste items you can and cannot put into the various bins. We have updated this infographic to now include Council collections, which is applicable if your Council
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It’s a challenging time for everyone right now, and as we are at home a lot more these days you are probably noticing the food is going down quickly and the bills are going up. . . Here a some tips that will help you maximise your food, reduce food waste and help your wallet!
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It’s frightening to see how much food we waste right here in Victoria. Below is an infographic of what average Victorian households are throwing out every year!
We have just talked you through your composting options in Melbourne, so thought it would make sense now to provide an easy reference guide as to what you can and cannot put into the various composting bins. Below is an infographic featuring some of the most common waste items (i.e. not a definitive list) in
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In the wake of International Composting Week which kicks off next week (6 – 12 May) we thought we would research and give you a rundown on your composting options in Melbourne. We already know that in Victoria food waste takes up nearly 40% of our overall waste, so we should be exploring ways we
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Composting is a fabulous way to deal with food waste in the home and as a bonus can produce a nutrient-rich compost to use on your garden to improve soil constitution. Leaves, grass clipping and much of your kitchen waste can be included in the composting, but there are some food waste items that are
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KS Environmental provides a great alternative to food waste getting sent to landfill through our food organics recycling programmes. The organic material collected is sent to a recycling facility where it is processed either by invessel composting or windrow composting. Windrow composting is farm scale composting and works for a diverse range of organic waste
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Last year we touched on the Watch My Waste research that is being undertaken at RMIT. This study which is still ongoing was targeted to businesses in the hospitality industry to measure and analyse food waste. RMIT is now going further along the research path and studying the attitudes and behaviours of consumers with regards
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Given that it is reported that around one third of the food produced in the world (1.3 million tonnes) goes to waste, we should always be on the lookout for new ways to avoid unnecessary food waste. If you are a Melbournian you might have already come across the consumer food waste app – ‘Yume’,
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Food waste is such as prominent issue and looking back at the Food Recovery Hierarchy, after ‘source reduction’ the next aspect we should be concentrating on is ‘Feeding People In Need’. One amazing food rescue organisation that does just that is SecondBite. SecondBite works by rescuing surplus fresh food that would otherwise go to landfill and
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