Waste reduction is important to our client Montville Coffee. Together we have produced BioCup collection bins for them to use at outdoor events. Their first is the Real Food Festival in Maleny QLD. This excellent festival will have onsite OSCA composting and a super kids cup planting activity. 12-13 Sept 2015.
'Pot up a seedling' will help kids reuse BioCups by filling them with potting mix and a seedling to take home to plant directly in the ground. What a great way to teach them about recycling, composting, and gardening. We love this!
Cups that do not get potted will be collected in our bins and fed to OSCA – On-Site Composting Apparatus – brought to the event by the lovely people at Worms Downunder.
OSCA is an automated, aerobic composting technology developed by WDU Sustainability in Queensland, Australia. Using minimal energy, OSCA processes organic waste streams including food waste (food preparation waste, plate scrapings, bones, seafood, etc.), agricultural waste, compostable packaging, paper and cardboard, manure, and green waste. OSCA can produce high quality, safe, and immediately usable compost within 10-14 days. OSCA is a continuous feed system – waste is loaded in one end and finished odourless compost ejected from the other. Perfect!
Dr Pene Mitchell, director at Worms Downunder is also a speaker at the event and has been active in sustainable waste management since completing a PhD. in sustainability and starting Worm Downunder with partner Dr Paul Harrey in 2005. The organisation has become a leader in organics waste management, locally manufacturing a range of small to large scale Worm Habitats and automated composters. Allowing waste to be sustainably processed into nutrient-rich garden products everywhere. If there are any cups left from the Real Food Festival, Worms Downunder will take them home to feed the worms.
Worms Downunder also works with another one of our customers – The University of Sunshine Coast (USC). They installed an OSCA there to compost all the Universities food scraps and our compostable plates, cups, and cutlery sold at their food outlets. The University also installed specific compostable, recyclable, paper, and landfill bins across the campus to encourage better waste sorting. This initiative has resulted in an approximately 70% reduction in waste going to landfills and contributed to USC being awarded the 'Sunshine Coast Council Good Recycling Award 2013' and the 2014 Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability Green Gown Award for Carbon Reduction.
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