A fun way to reduce your waste is to feed your food scraps to a worm farm or combine your food and garden waste together and place them in a compost bin.
Your food scraps and garden waste can be turned into great compost - for your garden and pot plants.
Worm Farms and Compost Bins in the Maitland City Council area
Contact Maitland City Council on 02 4934 9700 or email info@maitland.com.au to learn more about composting and worm farms or to find out where you can purchase a compost bin or worm farm.
To learn more about worm farming or composting, check out the Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW) Easy Compost and Worm Farming guides.
- Easy Guide to Wormfarming (953 kb PDF)
With kind permission from the Department of Environment and Conservation NSW - Easy Guide to Composting (501 kb PDF)
With kind permission from the Department of Environment and Conservation NSW - Easy Guide to Mulching (323 kb PDF)
With kind permission from the Department of Environment and Conservation NSW
