Did you know that approximately 50 percent of your general waste bin is organic waste and it could be composted on site, avoiding energy loss from transport and emission of dangerous greenhouse gases at landfill facilities?

Did you also know that plants and the microbes (that live and breed in compost, have a symbiotic relationship that determines plant health?

All that food waste and other organics is far too valuable for our soil to waste it by throwing it away.

You can ditch the fertilisers, save your pocket and do your garden a favour by making compost.

Join Robyn Brown, from Waste Is My Resource to learn about composting. She will will show you various forms of composting available for home gardeners such as how to use a compost bin, rotating composter, worm tubes. worm farms, pet composting and bokashi composting (ideal for small units).

At the completion of the presentation, if you commit to collecting and recording data each day for a month, return your information, then you will be eligible to collect a free compost system of your choice ( compost bin, worm farm or bokashi bin) at the Follow Up Q & A wprkshop on 30 June

This event is presented by the Serpentine Jarrahdale Community Resource Centre and the Waste Authority/Waste Sorted Program

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Participants who attend one of 3 workshops ( 19 February, 19 March, 9 April ) and agree to record their organic waste for 6 weeks, will be ELIGIBLE FOR A FREE COMPOST BIN, BOKASHI BIN OR WORM FARM. The collective waste data from this project will be forwarded to the Serpentine Jarrahdale Shire to assist with planning for the introduction of the third bin in 2025, as per state government regulations