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About communitycompost

We are a Melbourne-based group, keen to divert organic waste from landfill by facilitating local compost stations that can be used and managed by the community.

Thanks to Grill’d for Local Matters Donation

Posted on April 4, 2012

Thanks to Grill’d who have given us $100 as part of their community donation program, Local Matters. This can be used for straw, manure, lime etc, but if you have a better idea for how this money will benefit the … Continue reading →

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Update and Compost Week May 7- 12th

Posted on March 28, 2012

Dane reports: A key composter or I will email the Aerobin distributor to request replacement parts for the damaged internal vertical tube/core/flute for all four Aerobins. This should help deliver better air supply and more rapid, less smelly decomposting. Note … Continue reading →

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Another round of emptying

Posted on March 18, 2012

Last Sunday in Feb, we have had a working bee at Dawkins Reserve and thanks to some great hand-ons work by our keen composters, the bins were emptied out successfully. Compare to the last round, some of the materials seem to … Continue reading →

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Dawkins Reserve Pilot: The Future for These Compost Bins

Posted on February 10, 2012

If you are on our mailing list, you will have got this: Hello Composters The trial of the community composting site at Dawkins Reserve has proven very popular. It’s estimated that 50-60 households are using the bins, which puts them … Continue reading →

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Seedlings…

Posted on January 29, 2012

Some time ago we had a big emptying of the compost bins and we had more compost than we were able to deal with that day (3 barrow loads were taken away). So we put it under the mulch by … Continue reading →

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Compost Sort of Ready

Posted on January 22, 2012

I’m going away for a week and the bins are almost full, so I biked down today to empty out some of the contents and put it on our community garden at Veg Out. If anyone else wants some compost, … Continue reading →

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Bins Full to Bursting

Posted on December 21, 2011

The pilot scheme is becoming a victim of its own success. So many households are using the bins (50-60 we estimate) that they are filling up before the compost can break down. We may need to tape them shut, if … Continue reading →

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Another Visit to Sydney

Posted on November 19, 2011

I was up in Sydney for a cartoon conference and took the opportunity to check out a couple of the community composting bins in Chippendale. Was relieved to see that they look very similar, though I think we could learn … Continue reading →

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No Garden Waste – Please

Posted on November 12, 2011

We are really glad so many people are using the Aerobins at the Dawkins Reserve Site, but it is a pain having to clear up the garden rubbish that gets dumped in the bins (often the brown bin that we … Continue reading →

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Compost Outing

Posted on November 8, 2011

We emptied out the bottom of the Aerobins on Sunday. It has been a full four months since the trial started and the material hasn’t broken down as much as we hoped, but it was good enough for one of … Continue reading →

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