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This International Composting Awareness Week, we are encouraging households and communities to explore the benefits of composting and start your composting journey! Instead of viewing food scraps and organic materials (such as lawn and garden clippings) as waste, we should view it as a resource.

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Community Composting Webinar

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Hosted by WasteMINZ

7 May 2026, 11am

Online

Free

Join us to learn about four different projects across the motu which turn food scraps into a valuable resource to enrich soils and give back to Papatūānuku. You’ll learn from the best in the business and leave with practical tips for establishing your own community composting project, and some ideas about how to fund it.

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Composting Made Easy - Create Great Soil

Hosted by Central Otago REAP

10.30am - 12.30pm, Friday 24 April or 10.30am - 12.30pm, Saturday 2 May

Eden Gardens, Salvation Army Community Garden, 105 Dunstan Road, Alexandra (next door to Fulton Hogan)

Free

Autumn composting workshop to regenerate our garden beds. Which autumn leaves are best to compost? What else can we add to enrich our soil?

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International Compost Awareness Week events

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Community Composting Webinar

Composting Made Easy - Create Great Soil

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