Food scraps the next target in ACT's climate battle with food and organic waste trial launched in Belconnen

Jasper Lindell
November 23 2021 - 5:30am
Cook resident Clinton Cashen with the bench-top food waste bin, which has rolled out to 5000 homes in a new trial. Picture: Keegan Carroll
Cook resident Clinton Cashen with the bench-top food waste bin, which has rolled out to 5000 homes in a new trial. Picture: Keegan Carroll

The ACT government hopes a trial service for home owners to send their food scraps to a compost heap instead of landfill will prove a model to significantly reduce the amount of waste sent to the tip in Canberra.

Subscribe now for unlimited access.

$0/

(min cost $0)

or signup to continue reading

See subscription options
Jasper Lindell

Jasper Lindell

Assembly Reporter

Jasper Lindell joined The Canberra Times in 2018. He is a Legislative Assembly reporter, covering ACT politics and government. He also writes about development, transport, heritage, local history, literature and the arts, as well as contributing to the Times' Panorama magazine. He was previously a Sunday Canberra Times reporter.

Get the latest Canberra news in your inbox

Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date.

We care about the protection of your data. Read our Privacy Policy.