Yarraville residents now have access to new community composting hubs at the Yarraville Community Centre (YCC).
YCC chief executive Christine McCall said the new hubs were installed in partnership with Maribyrnong council’s My Smart Gardening Program and have already been well used by the community.
“Through our nourish program we get a lot of food waste and green waste which needs disposal,” she said.
“We want to be able to close the loop as we use the program to cook food for people , so we want to save all that waste from the food we cook in preparation.”
To save space, the YCC approached its neighbouring apartments about working collaboratively on a compost program.
“We are really fortunate they agreed and then we got permission from council to put the compost bins there,” she said.
“The bins are open to the YCC and the residences at the back of the centre.
“We are all working out the process and working together, but we will put our food waste from our cooking into the compost bin.”
Ms McCall said the community is enjoying the hub and all that comes with it.
“This is just displaying the community engagement in action,” she said.
“We have no local residents, we just have the community centre, and even though they are not participating in any way except by sharing the compost, it is still great.
“I think it is a display of generosity of everybody and the willingness to work together to solve what is a problem of of kitchen waste going into landfill and we don’t want that.”
Jennifer Pittorino
