Home Composting

You can put your food scraps and organic waste in your green organics bin to be collected and commercially composted. Or set up your own home compost and improve your garden soil and make your plants healthier at no extra cost.

Home compost is great for use on gardens as an organic soil conditioner to improve soil characteristics such as increased nutrients, aeration and water holding capacity. Materials suitable for composting include most food scraps, garden prunings and small quantities of paper/cardboard.

 

Home composting tips and tricks

For more information on home composting, please have a look at our Easy Guide to Better Composting.(PDF, 5MB)

If you are having problems with your compost, please have a look at our list of simple solutions.(PDF, 5MB)

Autumn Leaves

Not sure how to correctly dispose of all the leaves that Autumn leaves? Please have a look at our Autumn Leaves Composting Guide(PDF, 1MB).

 

Kitchen Caddies

The City of Burnside provides each household with a Kitchen Organics Basket and an annual supply of 150 compostable bags. For more information see the Additional Bins and Compostable Bags page.