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As temperatures warm up, you might start to experience fly larvae (maggots) in your bin especially because JHB has a bit of a fly...

Turning your Kitchen Waste into Vermicompost

"If there is one company which has the right mindset for sustainability, it's us. Why then, did we end up packaging our vermicompost in plas

On 22 April we recognized Earth Day which aims to bring urgent change to the way we interact with our planet. Most of the discussions...

How to compost garden waste in South Africa. Composting is done by a system of microorganisms and it is our job to create the perfect condit

A banana peel weighs a third of the total weight of a banana so if you buy a bunch of bananas for R37, you are paying R11 for peels.

You know, it is possible to shift the future of an entire nation. You just need a plan. Take a minute to read ours. Comment if you think it

The first step to a naturally weed free garden is to not have bare soil. We either plant our plants close enough together, or we cover bare

Plastics are great. Why? Because they are recyclable. So why are plastics such an issue then? Because 56% of our plastic doesn’t make it to

have you ever asked why do we make raised beds? They are so much effort, so why do we do it?

Some strange and wonderful vegetables are frost loving – they NEED frost in order to activate part of their life cycle! Here are 5 of which

The Compost Kitchen in the Daily Maverick

I started the business in May 2019 after living abroad for 2 years where I learnt about the seriousness of food waste

we are pleased to inform you that our food waste collection service will resume in May

As difficult as it is to put our business in jeopardy of closing, our decisions always take direction by what is best for our customers and

Although we see ourselves as an essential service to the planet, the police may not agree yet, so we have no choice but to suspend collectio

It's The Compost Kitchen's 1st birthday and we gave a gift to all our customers and mentors;

This is a business model where every second someone spends on it, makes the world a better place.

There’s a lot of hype about plastic. But I’m not going to try to convince you to recycle because I think we’ve all heard enough about it,...

As a launch to the Science of Recycling Series, let me assure you that all the information given here is from scientific literature, and...