Composting
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If every Queenslander composted, we’d save nearly 1,000,000 tonnes of landfill waste each year!
Every year, Australians throw away thousands of tonnes of household waste. Next time you take out your wheelie bin, look at what you are throwing away!
Almost half of our domestic rubbish consists of kitchen and garden waste. Most of this material can be composted. Composting reduces the amount of rubbish we throw away, decreases our need for landfill sites and provides a chemical-free fertilizer for our gardens.
Composting is a cheap and hygienic method of converting your kitchen and garden waste into a clean-smelling material used in the garden as a soil conditioner or surface mulch. About 40% of your household waste can be composted, which will reduce waste going to landfill by an average of 248 kilos per person per year.
Compost not only returns nutrients to the soil that would otherwise be lost, but also improves soil structure and increases the water holding capacity of the soil.
Composting is not new. Compost has been used in crop production for over 4000 years. Artificial fertilizers only became widely available a century ago. Australia, an old, eroded continent, is suffering from land degradation. Composting is one of the keys to soil care in rural and urban situations
