Blog – CSC

You’re contributing to superior composting

09/02/2023

Ok. I’ll say it. We’re the better option. I don’t think I was brought up to toot my own horn, or maybe it’s an innate personality thing. But there are certainly times and places for that kind of thing....

climate action, community composting, compost, compostable, composting, food waste, organics recycling, science

The future is compostable

13/11/2022

It was National Recycling Week last week. So, it’s particularly relevant that two recent newspieces have caught my eye. This one from the Guardian UK is reporting on results from a citizen science...

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