RP2019: CO2 Reduction and Food Production from Household and Commercial Food Waste:

Peer Reviewed Research Publications

RP2019: Book Chapter: Composting as everyday alchemy - producing compost from food scraps in twenty-first century urban environments

Waller, Vivienne,  Blackall, Linda and Newton, Peter (2018) 'Composting as everyday alchemy – producing compost from food scraps in twenty-first century urban environments'  in: L. Kivavali and R Crocker (eds) Subverting Consumerism: Reuse in an Accelerated World,  Routledge.  Access here.

Journal article: Community learnings through residential composting in apartment buildings

Belinda Christie & Vivienne Waller (2019) 'Community learnings through residential composting in apartment buildings', ', 50:2, 97-112, DOI: 10.1080/00958964.2018.1509289

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RP2019: Report: Urban composting research symposium: discussion paper

The urban composting research symposium was held at the Hawthorn Arts Centre on Monday 27 August 2018 to showcase the research undertaken as part of this CRC for Low Carbon Living funded project: “Enabling carbon reductions through composting food waste for use in growing food”.

The symposium focused on urban composting solutions, including kerbside collections of food waste for offsite composting and models of on-site composting and onsite pre-treatment for later composting. There is no one-size-fits all and the discussions were framed in terms of type of urban fabric.

Read the report HERE.

RP2018: Report: City of Port Phillip: Staff engagement with on-site office composting

This report presents findings from research undertaken by Swinburne University exploring staff engagement with using worm farms for food scrap compost in the Town Hall building of the City of Port Phillip offices.The research was conducted between March and April of 2017 via an online questionnaire distributed to all Town Hall staff via email. Questions asked staff about their experiences of food separation and composting in the office.

Read the report HERE.

RP2019: Journal Article: City of Melbourne: Staff engagement with on-site office composting

This report presents findings from research undertaken by Swinburne University exploring staff engagement with using worm farms for food scrap compost in the Council House 1 (CH1) building of the City of Melbourne offices.

The research was conducted between February and March of 2017 via an online questionnaire distributed to all CH1 staff via internal email. Questions asked staff about their experiences of food separation and composting in the office.

Read the report HERE.

RP3019: Report: Urban Composting - Research Symposium Outcomes Report

The Urban composting research symposium was held at the Hawthorn Arts Centre on Monday 27 August 2018 to showcase the research undertaken as part of the CRCLCL funded project, RP2019 “Enabling carbon reductions through composting food waste for use in growing food”.

urban composting roadshow 2018 outcomes report (709641 PDF)

Fact Sheets

RP2019 FACTSHEET: Transforming food ‘waste’ into compost: reducing GHGs, landfill and fertilizers

Australians divert much inedible food waste to landfill which releases around 9 million tonnes of CO2-e p.a. Through composting this organic matter and using it to help grow food there is an opportunity to improve crop production and reduce landfill and GHG emissions. This project compares models of onsite and offsite composting across different Australian urban precincts in terms of GHG reductions, the quality of the compost product (public health and soil quality issues) and people’s engagement with the composting process and compost product.

factsheet rp2019 compost 201802 final (910609 PDF)