Community Composting, Here and Abroad: Free Presentation

Come along to find out more about community composting both in Australia, as well as overseas. Community composting has the potential to help address many of modern societies' big issues including climate change, soil degradation, social isolation and the effects of a sedentary lifestyle.

Clytie Binder has recently returned from a Churchill Fellowship research tour, exploring how governments and community groups work together across towns and cities in the USA, Canada, Mexico and Cuba to support community-based approaches to composting. Since returning she has become part of a working group to set up a national organisation promoting and supporting community composting throughout Australia.

Clytie works in the Waste and Resource Recovery Branch at Brisbane City Council where she has developed a number of programs including Brisbane’s Community Compost hubs program, designed not only to reduce waste to landfill but to build community and empower citizens for positive change. Outside of Council Clytie is involved with community gardening and community composting.