Blog – CSC

Celebrating kitchen scraps – elevating their place in our kitchens

16/01/2022

Kitchen scraps aren’t waste, they’re a valuable resource. From the farm to the table and including the refrigerated trucks and shops along the way a lot of resources have gone into their...

busy workers managing food waste responsibly

Who pays for composting?

01/08/2021

Or how community composting helps us all #minimisemethane Landfill gas. It’s the problem that underlies the Capital Scraps mission, and we would like to help eliminate it. The UN Environment Program...

#minimisemethane, community composting, economics, scaling

Why are Autumn leaves so valuable to our mission?

22/04/2021

Our Main aim at Capital Scraps is to rescue as many kitchen scraps Canberra-wide as possible. By composting these the right way, we can avoid the generation of landfill gas (mostly methane) and move...

autumn, biochemistry, climate action, community composting, composting, food waste, leaves, microbiology, scicomm, science

Composting and climate

14/02/2021

I like to tell people that composting, but more specifically community composting is the best climate action you can take. How can that be when composting is only listed at no. 67 on Project Drawdown’s list...

climate accounting, community composting, emissions reduction

A year in compost(ing)

02/01/2021

2020 was a huge year for Capital Scraps, despite the global pandemic and other distractions (who could take their attention away from the car crash that was the US election??). For us, it was still...

Wooden 3-bay composter, small garden bed, electric trike and tools

Composting in the time of Covid-19

22/03/2020

Well, this blog post was going to be about the next step in our ‘Small Measures’ project, funded under the Community Zero Emissions grant program from ACTSmart (ACT govt.). I WILL talk...