In Sydney’s trendy inner-city suburb of Newtown there’s lots of funky street art and creative-thinkers but not a lot of gardens. Costa visits young couple Tomas and Eliska, who moved here from the Czech Republic. Their lack of garden meant that their food scraps were going to landfill so they devised a solution.
Tomas is a software engineer, so he set to work creating an app to solve the problem. They set up a system to connect people living in small spaces with others who have compost bins. Called ShareWaste, you simply download the application to a computer or smart phone and start using it.
A map shows local hosts - there are hundreds across Australia
Donors contact hosts then work out a drop-off time and place
Some people accept scraps for chickens and worm farms, too
They now have a weekly arrangement with a local host, Lachlan, who takes scraps from about five nearby neighbours.
“I feel like they’re doing me a favour bringing me their food scraps so I can make beautiful compost,” Lachlan explains. “The areas where I’ve been putting compost, the soil is dark and rich and there’s lots of earthworms - it’s full of life.”
Lachlan also accepts fermented food scraps, which he digs straight into the garden.
“Imagine if every block had four or five compost bins to save all that waste going to landfill,” says Lachlan. “And the benefits of a community that actually gets together and knows each other - and creates compost.”
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