WASTE AUDIT WITH COMPOST COLLECTIVE

Tonight after our meal, Tori came to work with us to do a waste audit. with our lovely little helpers

Here are the audit results:

Total rubbish bag weights – 27.44 kg

Sorted rubbish weights ;

Paper: 1.28 kg 

Compostable paper: 0.42 kg

Recyclable plastic: 0.96 kg

Metals: 0.34 kg

Glass: 0.64 kg

Soft plastic (plastic bags): 0.56 kg

Food scraps: 24.1kg

landfill: 0.22 kg

This means that only 0.22 kg of the rubbish has to be sent to landfill, all the rest can be recycled and composted.

The results make it easy for us to see how we can plan to reduce the landfill eg collect soft plastic.

You can learn more here how to compost, at Make the most of waste  Auckland Council & Compost Collective –  how to compost, worm farm and bokashi (good video clips to share – at the bottom of the home page)

Tonight we learned how and what can be recycled, Feeding our worms, and what a good balance is when composting. correct composting will mean it shouldn’t smell. We are in need of lots more Paper to balance out our compost.