Green Waste and Composting Policy 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
Assessment of Markets for Recycled Organics in Western Australia.
The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the supply and demand
trends for recycled organics in a range of markets and geographic areas in close proximity to Perth, and to identify the barriers preventing the growth of emerging markets, including urban amenity, intensive and extensive agriculture, enviro-remediation, rehabilitation and bio-fuels.
Published: 2007-10-12
DISPOSE OF UNWANTED HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE SAFELY!
Brochure and Poster Development Kit- July 2007
Welcome to the Dispose of Unwanted Household Hazardous Waste Safely! Brochure and Poster
Development Kit. This kit is designed to enable you to produce your own educational materials for the
safe disposal of household hazardous waste.
Published: 2007-07-03
ORGANICS RECYCLING AND SUSTAINABLE GARDENING AT HOME: Brochure and Poster Development Kit for Environmental
Educators
Welcome to the Organics Recycling and Sustainable Gardening at Home Brochure and Poster
Development Kit for Environmental Educators! This kit is designed to enable you to produce your own
educational materials or utilise those provided for the topics of Home Composting, Sustainable
Gardening and Worm Farming.
Published: 2007-06-25
Draft Organics Strategy
This strategy document represents the culmination of an extensive program of investigation into issues relating to organic waste and what strategies could be implemented to reduce the environmental impact of organic waste in WA.
Published: 2006-07-10
Report by the Working Group on
Standards for Organics (including Compost) Applied to Land
This is a report to the Waste Management Board of a record of the deliberations and findings of the Working Group on Organics (including Compost) Applied to Land. The discussions held by the Working Group covered a wide range of topics relevant to recycling of organic waste.
Published: 2005-11-01
Management of Garden and Food Organics Produced by Municipal and Commercial & Industrial Sectors in Australia and Overseas
This consultancy report presents a review of the contemporary management approaches for garden and food organics produced by the municipal and commercial & industrial sector, presents a number of issues or themes that currently impact on the management of garden and food organics, and a review of the suite of policies and supporting programs implemented by a number of jurisdictions, both in Australia and overseas.
Published: 2005-07-01