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Welcome to Brisbane Loves Compost
This is your page to connect with Brisbane composters and to find out what's happening across Brisbane to do with composting, gardening and living a more sustainable life style.
Whether you're involved in the Community Composting Hubs, the Master Composter Course, ShareWaste, or home composting, you can find something for you here. We really value and welcome your input so please contribute! Every tab has a different functionality, so for you to better understand how this page works please see below:
Composting at Home - This is a forum, feel free to comment on any discussion posted here and get talking amongst yourselves
Compost Notice Board- Add your composting experiences and comment on each other's posts. Use this page to share ideas. News articles, a fun event or workshop you went too, a DIY you made at home, everything is welcome in this space lets get creative!
Master Composters - Resources for Master Composters - volunteering opportunities, videos and more.
What's happening in August
There is a composting and worms workshop on Thursday 10th and Saturday 12th August at the Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens. This month Grow it Local have a very cool composting myth busting online workshop which you don't want to miss!
Professor Susanne Schmidt is a UQ-based educator and scientist with expertise in agro-ecology and sustainable food production. She will be giving a lecture on her research investigating the power of compost. This event is available online or in-person at the State Library of Queensland. Bookings here!
Welcome to Brisbane Loves Compost
This is your page to connect with Brisbane composters and to find out what's happening across Brisbane to do with composting, gardening and living a more sustainable life style.
Whether you're involved in the Community Composting Hubs, the Master Composter Course, ShareWaste, or home composting, you can find something for you here. We really value and welcome your input so please contribute! Every tab has a different functionality, so for you to better understand how this page works please see below:
Composting at Home - This is a forum, feel free to comment on any discussion posted here and get talking amongst yourselves
Compost Notice Board- Add your composting experiences and comment on each other's posts. Use this page to share ideas. News articles, a fun event or workshop you went too, a DIY you made at home, everything is welcome in this space lets get creative!
Master Composters - Resources for Master Composters - volunteering opportunities, videos and more.
What's happening in August
There is a composting and worms workshop on Thursday 10th and Saturday 12th August at the Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens. This month Grow it Local have a very cool composting myth busting online workshop which you don't want to miss!
Professor Susanne Schmidt is a UQ-based educator and scientist with expertise in agro-ecology and sustainable food production. She will be giving a lecture on her research investigating the power of compost. This event is available online or in-person at the State Library of Queensland. Bookings here!
It's Spring cleaning season! Time to clean our your linen closet and attend one of our free events.
We are excited to let you know that on the weekend we held our first of three drive-through textile recycling events and we had enormous success.
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Brisbane City Council is partnering with BlockTexx, a QLD based end of life textile recycling company to provide residents with the opportunity to divert their end of life linens from landfill. These valuable textiles are recycled into raw materials to be re manufactured and used in other industries such as hydro mulch at the Sydney Airport.
Unfortunately due to fast fashion a lot of our clothing and textiles are made up of synthetic fibres which makes them hard to recycle, BlockTexx have developed a new process which can separate the polyester and cotton fibres and turn them into sustainable products.
There are another two upcoming events at Karawatha on 9th September and Boondall on 21st October so don't miss this amazing opportunity to give your old threads a new life.
Council is making it easier to compost at home with a $70 rebate for eligible composting equipment, including compost bins and tumblers, worm farms and bokashi systems.
To divert food waste from landfill, composting your food waste at home is the top priority, with composting in your community as the second priority. Composting at home and in the community also encourages many other positive waste prevention behaviours such as preventing food waste(External link) from occurring in the first place, and growing your own food(External link).
What types of compost equipment do you recommend? Add your ideas below to assist other residents choose what's right for them - whether they have a backyard, live in an apartment or want to compost at their workplace.