And just a little bit more.....

Just a few more photos from Condobolin - because the bins look so wonderful!

More from Condobolin

Here is a photo of Trumby picking through the City to Soil collection. You can see a plastic bottle in the middle of the mix - this was just about the only piece of contamination.

The collection was very very clean - just this bottle, a few cans, some polystyrene food trays and one bag of general rubbish. Well done Condobolin!

And at the end of a long day - here is Sonny and his very first pile of compost-to-be, all sprayed, sorted, covered and ready to start fermenting.

Condobolin gets behind City to Soil

Everyone we spoke to in Condobolin this week let us know how excited they were about the new City to Soil collection, and what perfect sense it makes to compost food and garden waste rather than sticking it into landfill. Everyone LOVES the new Biobags and MaxAir bins.

You can see from the photos how free of contamination the collections were.

It was a beautiful morning......

It was a beautiful morning......................all the bins were out.



What an amazing response from Condobolin townsfolk! And how beautiful those City to Soil bins looked.

Sonny, Willie, Trumby and Shae did an amazing job nursing the WCC City to SOil truck through its first day of collections.

City to Soil rolls out in Condobolin

After a stellar effort from EVERYONE at the WCC, Lachlan Shire Council and the rest of the project team, every household in Condobolin has received their City to Soil wheelie bins, MaxAir Kitchen Top Bins and their Biobags. And don't those City to Soil wheelie bins look FABULOUS!

City to Soil is underway! HOORAY!

The first City to Soil combined food scrap and garden waste collection is scheduled the week starting September the 22nd. The WCC boys are all ready to start composting. Its all happening folks.

It was lovely to get such positive feedback from people living in Condobolin. The overwhelming message is that people would much rather see their food scraps and garden waste going back into agriculture rather that WASTED in landfill.

Well done Condobolin!!!!! Lets see if you can beat Eastgrove with your even lower contamination rates!

Condobolin Composting Shed

The Condobolin Composting shed is almost finished thanks to the very hard work of all involved. And what a beautiful shed it is. The clever folks at the WCC hand made those bricks, and they are beautiful. The shed is airy and cool and beautifully made.

Here is a closer look at the inside. You can see the composting bays and where the truck will drive through. Funnily enough, all the boys moved out of the picture when the camera came out, but here is Nimmo - who has lead the WCC through the construction process. Well done Nimmo!

First City to Soil PRIZE Presented

press release from Goulburn Mulwaree Council........

The first of two monthly City to Soil prizes has been presented to Eastgrove’s Heather Slater.
Mrs Slater was randomly selected to receive the prize – a fruit and vegetable basket - after her family correctly collected their food waste in biobags and placed it in their green waste bins.

When collecting the basket, Mrs Slater praised the new City to Soil initiative.

"It’s a really good idea, especially if it’s going to help farmers," Mrs Slater said.
"It was very easy to use and there was no smell, which was a bit surprising."

Two monthly prizes will continue to be presented throughout the Eastgrove test-run of City to Soil. When the collections are rolled out in Goulburn and Marulan later this year, monthly prizes will also be on offer.

PHOTO: CITY TO SOIL WINNER: Council’s Facilities Engineer Andrew Galland presents Eastgrove local Heather Slater with one of the first City to Soil monthly prizes – a basket of fruit and vegetable.

Field of Dreams

Build it, and they will come..............

Your project manager admiring the site preparation work for Goulburn's you beaut all weather composting shed.

Eastgrove Collection #2

Last week saw the second City to Soil collection in Eastgrove. Once again, folks were FANTASTIC at keeping contamination out of the collection.

The total contamination rate was 0.334% (still WAY under 1%). The addition of a concrete block in a Green Waste bin accounts for most of that weight!

Other contamination items include polystyrene, plastic bags, plastic pot and of course, that naughty piece of concrete.

Happily, there was NO contamination found in any Biobags. How do we know? Well, as the picture shows, we check!



Lots more households are using their MaxAir bins and Biobags for the collection of food scraps, and placing these in their green waste bins. Eastgrove residents are doing really well with the collection of food scraps in the Biobags.

For those who are not quite sure about the new collection, the inclusion of food scraps in the green waste collection greatly enhances the composting process, and the quality of the final product. We have fully tested the MaxAir bins and Biobags and they really truly do not smell.

In fact, we are very confident that placing your food scraps in the Biobags and then in the green waste bin will be less smelly that putting them in your ordinary garbage bin. It really is beautiful stuff.

Here is a photo of David Long from GMC spraying Eastgrove's second City to Soil collection with composting solution. The bags you can see on the pile are all Biobags, which will breakdown very quickly once the pile heats up and those lovely microbes start doing their job.

In the background, you can see our finished trial pile and on the right, last month's City to Soil collection cooking away under the plastic. After an initial spike in temperature, that pile is fermenting along nicely at around 32 degrees - even in our Southern Tablelands winter!

Many many thanks to everyone in Eastgrove for doing such a wonderful job with their new City to Soil collection.