Composting and worm farms

Composting is using a different bin called a compost bin for some rubbish like vegetable scraps and garden prunings. Council sells compost bins at cost price and delivers them to locations within Moreland for free.

A compost bin sits in your garden. You can put vegetable scraps, garden waste, newspaper and cardboard into the bin. After approximately four months it decomposes and makes a good garden fertiliser called ‘compost’.

Composting recycles rubbish and makes something useful.

Why compost some of your rubbish?

• Good for the environment because less rubbish is transported to landfill for disposal. Less greenhouse gases are made.
• Good for the environment because less rubbish is put in landfill. Landfills in Australia are getting full.
• Free fertiliser for your garden and potplants.
• You reduce the rubbish in your rubbish bin.

What you need for composting: a compost bin

A compost bin is a container for making compost. A compost bin is usually made from hard plastic and looks like a barrel.

Put a compost bin in your garden. Then put some rubbish like vegetable scraps, garden waste, newspaper and cardboard into the compost bin. After four months the rubbish decomposes and makes a good garden fertiliser called compost.

A compost bin keeps all the waste together, stops mice or animals getting in and makes it easy for you to add to and mix the compost.

Cheap compost bins with free delivery

Council sells the Gedye 220 litre compost bin to households, businesses, organisations and schools based in Moreland. Council subsidies the compost bin price and sells it for $49.50 including GST. Compost bins usually cost around $80 or more.

To buy a compost bin from Council:

• fill in the Green Waste Bin and Compost Bin Order Form (DOC 1Mb)
• post it to Council with your payment of $49.50 or bring it to any of Council’s three Citizens Service Centres.
• Council delivers your compost bin for free during business hours for any property in Moreland.

Composting for units and flats - worm farms

A worm farm is a good alternative to a compost bin for people with less space or no garden. You can keep a worm farm in a small outside area that is undercover. This could be your carpark, garage or verandah.

Council does not sell worm farms or worms. Buy them from CERES community environment park or nurseries.