A selection of Armidale households has been chosen to try out a new kind of kitchen recycling.

 

The new kitchen waste collection initiative will involve sending out specially designed vented kitchen bench top bins and compostable BioBags that will be used to help collect food scraps.

 

Two hundred homes in central Armidale have been chosen to take part in the City to Soil Initiative and next week they should notice a year’s supply of Biobags, a sticker and an instruction leaflet delivered to their home.

 

Those taking part in the trial initiative will be asked to collect their kitchen waste (items such as veggie peelings, tea bags, paper towels and food leftovers) in the bins and BioBags and then when they are full they can be tied up and placed in their green waste bins.

 

The food and garden waste from the green bins will then be taken to the Armidale Waste Transfer Station where it will be recycled into high quality compost, which will then be available for a small cost to local growers.

 

The City to Soil initiative will run as a trial to start with to see how households take up the new method of discarding waste, and to fine tune any problems before making the initiative available to everyone in Armidale. Some people may be put off by the thought of having food scraps kept on their kitchen benches, but the vented bins and compost bags have been specially designed so that they don’t contribute to bad kitchen odours.

 

It would be great if City to Soil ended up being a success, because by turning food waste into compost we can help reduce the amount of organic waste that goes into landfill and help protect the environment.

 

For those who are interested in finding out more about the Armidale City to Soil initiative, you can visit www.armidalecitytosoil.blogspot.com or the Armidale Dumaresq Council website.