Throwing things into landfill is costly and has no financial benefit.  The European Union's circular economy package recognises the highest value of resources often considered to be waste.  Accordingly, it has increased the targets for recycling of all waste and direc...

Sick of cleaning out your food scraps bin? In just a few minutes you can learn how to make a bin liner for your food scraps bin using just one sheet of newspaper.  This is obviously much better for the environment than using a plastic bag, even if the plastic is consid...

Brisbane City Council have developed a cute little digital game called Worm World.  It is designed to teach children how to look after their worms, including what to feed them, what not to feed them and how to check they are doing OK.  Click here to get it as an i...

Although we are academics, we do occasionally get our hands dirty.   Pictured here are Alex Castillo and Belinda Christie sorting through some of Swinburne cafes' food scraps in order to work out the proportion by weight of particular types of food.  Alex requires this...

It is very exciting for us that Swinburne University is increasing its sustainability by installing an in-vessel composter to take the food waste from an on-campus cafe precinct.   This cafe precinct will also be one of the research sites in our project - very convenie...

We have now commenced fieldwork at six sites including four apartment blocks that have just had in-vessel composters or worm farms installed. 

Last week we were at an apartment block with a rooftop terrace, which the residents hope to convert to a rooftop garden.   Aft...