Green Waste and Composting Guideline Documents:
Fact Sheet: Home Composting
Provides basic facts and tips on composting and recycling organic waste.
Published: 2010-05-04
Fact Sheet: Worm Farming
Provides basic facts and tips on setting up a worm farm.
Published: 2010-05-04
Home Composting Brochure
Home composting is a simple process that assists in the breakdown of organic matter – such as food scraps and garden organics into a nutrient rich soil-like material that can be used to create and maintain a healthy and sustainable garden. This brochure will help you get started in four easy steps.
Published: 2010-05-04
Worm Farming Brochure
Worm farming is a simple way of converting food scraps and other organic material into a nutrient rich organic fertiliser called worm castings. This brochure will help you get started in five easy steps.
Published: 2010-05-04
Sustainable Gardening Brochure: Using Compost
A guide to using composting in your garden. Compost is an organic fertiliser resulting from the controlled breakdown of organic matter. It can be made at home in a compost bin from garden trimmings and food scraps, or bought from garden centres and landscape suppliers.
Published: 2010-05-04
Home Composting Poster
Educational resource for facts about Home Composting
Published: 2010-05-04
Worm Farming Poster
Educational resource for facts about Worm Farming
Published: 2010-05-04
Fact Sheet: Sustainable Gardening
Provides basic facts and tips on conducting sustainable gardening around the home.
Published: 2010-05-04
Sustainable Gardening Poster
Educational resource for facts about sustainable gardening
Published: 2010-05-04
Waste Authority Postion Statement on Recycled Organics October 2009
A function of the Authority is to promote the wise use of resources that would otherwise
be considered to be waste. Consequently, the Authority considers the diversion and
beneficial use of organic waste from landfill to be a priority.
When applied to home gardens, public parks, road verges or farmland suitably
processed recycled organic material (such as a high quality compost) can improve soil
quality and help maintain plant available nutrients in soils. The use of recycled organics
can provide significant benefit, as many Western Australian soils have low water holding
capacity, are low in certain plant nutrients, lack sufficient levels of organic matter and
suffer from other soil fertility issues.
The Authority believes that appropriately selected
and processed organic waste should be recycled wherever possible and used to
replenish soil organic matter.
Published: 2009-10-15
Draft Interim Standard for Organics Applied to Land
The purpose of this document is to set quality standards for organic materials being applied to land as a soil conditioner, fertiliser or mulch. The standard is aimed at producers and users of recycled organic products. The standard may also be useful to regulators by providing information to support licensing and enforcement activities, however, it is voluntary and does not constitute a regulation.
Published: 2006-07-10