Home composting reduces landfill emissions

We all have food and kitchen wastes to deal with. Discarding them as rubbish is a habit for many, and they are typically landfilled.

Rubbish in landfill harms the environment. Help the environment by recycling your wastes.

Why is recycling food waste important?

Landfilled food waste rots and emits methane, a greenhouse gas which traps 84x more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Methane intensifies global heating, so a swift methane emission reduction is important.

Groundwater contamination is another problem with landfills. Food waste in landfills releases water which picks up heavy metals, pharmaceuticals and other contaminants as it flows downwards. This polluted liquid, or leachate seeps through soil and contaminates our underground water sources.

Australian waste statistics are staggering. Households generate 2.5 million tonnes of food waste per year, and most of it (92%) goes to landfills.

The wastes can be recycled instead at home and converted into productive compost.

The rewards of home composting

Recycling food and kitchen waste at home is effective in reducing planet-heating emissions from two sources - directly from the waste in landfill as well as from heavy vehicles collecting, transporting and burying the rubbish.

You'll also reduce groundwater pollution by having less waste rotting and producing landfill leachate.

Lastly, home composting creates garden soil improvers which enable you to grow healthy plants while saving money.

Bioverter is designed to make home composting simple, and in particular, easy to recycle wastes from your kitchen into useful compost for your plants. You can now routinely recycle your everyday wastes into a steady stream of compost.