Stories - Compost Collective

Neighbourly composting: connecting through ShareWaste

Tell us a bit about yourself and your composting journey: My name is Laura. I grew up in a household that composted, and one of the primary schools I went to (rural Far North) was big on educating about waste. They taught us about leachate in landfills and why it is so important to not

Carmen’s Community Composting Story

Carmen is a recent composting convert, who went from composting nothing to composting her food scraps, and those of her neighbour’s and workplace’s too. She shares her worm farming journey with us. Tell us a bit about how your composting journey began. Composting was something I didn’t ever think about doing until I began reading

Growing Green: Casey’s Urban Composting Journey

North Shore-based Casey Namana tells us about his composting and gardening journey. His passion began with his grandad’s imparting knowledge, coupled with a mother who is also a keen gardener, and the willingness to learn, Casey is a role model to others starting their composting journey. Tell us a bit about yourself, and how you

Q&A with Bayview Community Centre Compost Hub

Bayview Community Centre’s composting journey started with a small compost set up in the garden, which wasn’t thriving. The fund enabled them to purchase Bokashi bins, and aeration forks, as well as connecting them with a Compost Collective facilitator who gave them helpful advice to get up and running as a composting hub. Tell

Q&A with Kaipātiki Community Composting Hub

The second hub in our series is the Kaipātiki Community Composting Hub on Auckland’s North Shore. We chat with Joanne who gives us great insight into their hub, and some fantastic tips and advice for other community composters. Tell us a bit about your organisation We run two hubs, Kaipātiki (established 2021-22) and Hobsonville Community

Q&A with Soil Factory, a Community Composting Hub

Community composting hubs can be found dotted around Auckland, and no doubt you have one or more in your own neighbourhood. We got in touch with a few of the hubs that have received the Compost Collective Hub Fund to get some tips from them for anyone who is looking to start their own, or

Lena’s composting journey

Lena talks to us about her composting journey – she is one year into it, having come to live in New Zealand, from Europe, last year and finally having the land and space to compost. Tell us a bit about yourself. My husband and I live in a house in Laingholm. We moved to New

Eduardo – Hobsonville Point

Eduardo and his family wanted to do their part in helping the environment, but living in a Hobsonville Point townhouse had its own challenges when it came to composting. With a small outdoor space, not big enough to use the black gold the composting process creates, Eduardo paid a visit to his local community composting

ShareWaste on holiday – Victoria’s story

When Victoria Aguilera went on her summer camping holiday with four other families, she wanted to continue composting, but didn’t want to save up the food scraps to bring home. Instead, Victoria signed up to ShareWaste NZ, connected to a host local to the holiday spot and was able to continue her composting journey

Adam’s composting story

Adam Rayner is a keen composter and family-man, living in Auckland. We talked to Adam about how he got his children involved and interested in composting, and what he is teaching them along the way, and how he and his family are diverting their food waste from landfill. Tell us a bit about yourself. My