sa composters environmental info

"Vegetation", also known as "Green Organics", "Yard Trimmings" or "Garden Refuse" is used to make up a large percentage of the rubbish buried in landfill dumps.  Now, due to the water restrictions, and the popularity of organic growing and decorative landscaping, most vegetation is being composted and returned to the soil.

Composting is the ideal way of solving an environmental waste problem at the same time as providing much needed soil improvement to South Australian soils.  All the domestic vegetation that comes through our gates is sorted into various grades and eventually sold back to the public as compost, mulch, garden soil, potting mix or firewood; There is zero waste!!

SA Composters saves more than 10,000 cubic metres of clean garden waste from being buried in landfill dumps every year.  With the careful selection and inspection of all incoming vegetation and long composting process, SA Composters have gained organic certification.  Regular independent testing is carried out by NASAA (National Association of Sustainable Agriculture Australia) to give customers confidence that the compost is pure and suitable for growing food.

ENVIRONMENTAL USES OF COMPOST AND MULCH

Although environmental uses for compost appear to be a huge market, there are limited numbers of successful programs that have tapped this great market potential. Still, it is clear that with the invention of pneumatic application equipment, i.e., ‘blower trucks’, the future use of compost in some of these environmental applications will only increase.

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