Linking people & redesigning systems
for a healthy future
Linking people & redesigning systems
for a healthy future
The wider economic viability of collecting and composting urban organic waste for use as a cost effective, high quality agricultural input is about to be put to the test as part of a new partnership project between farmers and the Goulburn Mulwaree, Palerang, Queanbeyan City and Lachlan Councils.
The Groundswell project will get underway in Condobolin, in the Lachlan Shire, where collections are scheduled to start in May 2008, with collections to follow in Goulburn (August 2008), Queanbeyan and Palerang Shires (November 2008).
Developed in partnership with the Wiradjuri Condobolin Aboriginal Corporation, the Palerang Agricultural Society, Bettergrow, Zero Waste Australia and the South East office of the DECC Sustainability Programs Division, Groundswell builds on the successful City to Soil project run by DECC and Queanbeyan City Council in 2004.
City to Soil demonstrated that high quality, organic wastes from urban communities can be collected, composted and used in agriculture with positive economic and environmental results for farmers.
Going a step further, Groundswell will quantify the economic benefits to agriculture of returning quality organic product to soil and will identify models for the development of a permanent ‘pull’ market for recycled urban organics into agriculture.
For more information contact Gerry Gillespie on (02) 6229 7135