This project will develop new distributed models for reducing greenhouse gases and achieving environmental, health, social and economic co-benefits from composting household and commercial food waste for the purposes of growing food.
It will assess the social, environmental and commercial sustainability of different scalable models of food waste separation, comparing offsite composting and models of onsite composting for different urban forms.
It will develop tools and sustainable living practices to inform future low-carbon design of precincts, through greenhouse gas modelling, microbial analysis of the compost product and road testing of these models in “living laboratories”.
For further information about this project, including a full project summary and researcher bios, visit the Food Compost Food website.