Find your composting match. Which system is right for you?
Take our quiz and find out which composting system is the perfect match for you and your home.
Do you have a backyard?
Do you have any green garden waste that you want to compost?
How much food waste does your household create in a week?
Do you have meat and/or dairy scraps in your food waste that you want to compost?
Your composting match is a traditional composter such as the Dirt Vader or a tumbler.
Traditional composters like these break down food and garden waste. They are ideally suited for medium to large backyards and for households that produce both food and garden waste. The finished compost can be added to garden beds and pot plants and will add valuable nutrients, improve the structure of your soil, increase water retention and reduces the need for chemical fertilisers.
Council is offering Maroondah residents up to 60% off the purchase of a Dirt Vader or tumbler compost systems. Visit Council's website to learn more about your composting match, traditional composter tips and ordering one of these compost systems.
Your composting match is a solar composter.
The Green Cone Solar Composter is a low maintenance system that can take up to four litres per day of food and pet waste. This system is great for someone who wants to reduce food waste but doesn’t have a large garden to use finished compost on. It does not produce compost for the garden, instead, it returns the nutrients directly into the surrounding soil. You put your waste in and the sun and your garden worms do the rest!
Council is offering Maroondah residents up to 60% off the purchase of a solar composter. Visit Council's website to learn more about your composting match, solar composting tips and ordering a solar composter system.
Your composting match is a Bokashi system.
The Bokashi Bin is an airtight container you can use to dispose of all food waste from your household. Your food waste is fermented in the Bokashi Bin and then buried either in your garden or added to a compost bin. Suited for all types of households including apartments, the Bokashi Bin can be kept in your kitchen, under your kitchen sink, on the bench, or in your laundry. The Bokashi Bin also produces a nutrient rich liquid fertiliser, which is good for your plants and garden.
Council is offering Maroondah residents up to 60% off the purchase of a Bokashi system. Visit Council's website to learn more about your composting match, Bokashi composting tips and ordering a Bokashi system.
Your composting match is a worm farm system.
Worm farms are low maintenance and are ideal for households that have small or no yards. Worm farms produce a liquid fertiliser and a solid fertiliser called castings.
Council is offering Maroondah residents up to 60% off the purchase of a worm farm. Visit Council's website to learn more about your composting match, worm farm tips and ordering a worm farm system.
Your composting match is a combination of composting systems or the FOGO system.
You could benefit from a combination of home composting systems, as well as your Council FOGO bin.
You might need to do some more reading on each type of system and what will suit your needs. Council is offering Maroondah residents up to 60% off the purchase of compost systems such as a compost bin, green cone solar composter, Bokashi bin or worm farm.
Visit Council's website to learn more about composting, composting tips and ordering a compost system.
You can also visit the website for Council's best tips on how to use your FOGO bin, plus download a full list of what can go in your FOGO bin while you're there.
