Composting may be a pipe dream for many businesses but now it can become a reality with a new trial offer of food recycling bins given to four businesses throughout the South Wairarapa for six months, supported by the Council.

“We’re aiming to help businesses in our district to divert food waste from landfill. This will reduce methane emissions and contribute to local soil health,” says Mandy De Ritter, Council Lead Advisor – Resource Recovery & Waste.

“The Bokashi bins are a simple, space saving ways to turn your food scraps into nutrient rich food for yours or someone else’s garden.”

The Council gave funding to Pickled from the Community Wellbeing Fund to help build composting into the community’s mindset and to significantly start to reduce the approximately 50% of waste that goes to landfill, which could have been composted.

Businesses that sign up to the Bokashi Bin Trial with Pickled will each receive two to three bins with a capacity of 120 litres each as well as a discount off a Bokashi inoculant from Pickled Compost, which is hosting family friendly compost learning days between May and October this year.

The bin trials for four businesses are supported by the Council and coincide with this year’s International Compost Awareness Week, which runs from Sunday 4 May to Friday 10 May.

International Compost Awareness Week champions repurposing our food waste rather than sending it to landfill, using composting, worm farms, the Bokashi bins and other ways of reducing, repurposing and re-using food scraps to nourish soils.

Find out more and sign up for a Pickled compost trial, supported by your Council here – search for Bokashi Bin Trial.