Ask your Council if you can down size your regular waste bin to save e.g. in the Glenorchy City Council area you can reduce your 240L garbage bin to a 120L bin and save over $38 per year.

The life of our local landfill at McRobies tip is rapidly coming to an end. Once this has been filled in 5 to 6 years, our waste will be trucked down to a new landfill site at Copping. It will cost us all $20 million to close McRobies, set up the transfer station and the new Copping landfill. By diverting our organics from either of these landfill sites, we can prolong the life of our landfills at the same time as converting our organics into a useful soil conditioner.

We are fortunate to have a first class commercial composter available to process all the food and garden organics we can send to them. Soil First is a Tasmanian family owned and run facility licensed to process all types of organic wastes and have been producing 1st grade compost for agriculture application for over 7 years.

Soil First was the first commercial compost facility to test and approve our award winning Australian designed and made Eenee Compostables disposable nappies for commercial composting.

All commercial composters require uncontaminated feedstock in order to maintain their high quality composts. It is very important to only send organic waste with no plastic or glass contaminants.

You can purchase the very high quality Soil First compost from and other selected outlets under 'The Gardeners Friend' brand.

Help close the recycling loop and support this Tasmanian made product. Bulk supplies of the Soil First compost can be purchased from Males Sand in Macquarie St .