Libby Rainey, of The Denver Post, has recently penned an article about a Denver bike crew who area using pedal power to rescue food from landfills. She writes,

"It’s a steamy Friday morning, and Christi Turner is elbows-deep in compost. Armed with yellow gloves and an e...

Our cafes here at Swinburne's Hawthorn campus are composting their food waste! The compost is being processed by a 24 hour in-vessel machine underneath the building and is being used by Swinburne horticulture students to grow food! So next time you come to Swinburne, g...

Check out this article by Elizabeth Royte for Modern Farmer, who explains the story behind cold-pressed juices. She writes:

"A serving of juice generates up to 4.5 pounds of pulp, depending on the ingredients. So where does all the leftover cucumber, mint, kale, apple,...

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...

Swinburne Media has recently published an article about the brand new Closed Loop in-vessel composter on campus! Some of Swinburne's cafes have begun using the composter to convert their food scraps into compost. The compost will soon be collected by Swinburne horticul...