The City of Cape Town’s latest food waste initiative provides free home-composting containers to residents to encourage them to start composting at home.
Instead of throwing away your household’s organic waste, you can use it to make compost for your garden.
The City of Cape Town is providing composting containers to help manage organic waste and create a good compost system. Good compost feeds nutrients back into the soil and can help you to grow your own food and establish a healthy garden.
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Even if you have a smaller garden or backyard, making compost is easy. A good compost system feeds nutrients back into the soil, helping plants and food grow. This is particularly helpful in Cape Town where some areas do not have fertile soil.
It also helps with the following:
- Good compost makes healthier plants.
- Composting reduces the amount of waste going to landfills.
- Composting means less greenhouse gas emissions.
How to qualify:
- You can apply for your container when the programme comes to a location close to you.
- You need to be a homeowner or tenant of a single residence (sectional title flats are excluded).
- Your property needs to include a secure garden or yard area.
- To generate healthy compost, your compost bin will require a section of 1 metre² of open soil.
How to apply:
- Visit one of the collection points to complete an application form.
- Application forms will only be available at the venues during the specified dates and times.
- If your property qualifies, you can collect your home composting container on the day you apply.
- Please note: A limited number of free home composting containers will be issued per day and will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis.
What to bring to the application process:
- A copy of your municipal account.
- Your identity document or passport.
What you’ll get when you collect your home composting package:
- Information brochures detailing how to start your home composting journey.
- Your home composting container.
If you are not sure where to start or you need more information about composting at home, visit the home-composting page.
Details:
- Collection points: Collection point programme
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