From little things, big things grow

At a community BBQ held at the Northern Suburbs Community Centre, Federal Member for Bass struck up a conversation with Kimberley Eaton from Golden Brown Tasmania who launched a community composting project towards the end of last year.

Collecting used coffee grounds from local businesses, Kimberley and Golden Brown recycle them back into soils around Launceston, including at community organisations like Northern Suburbs Community Centre Inc and The St Leonards Hazara Community Garden.

“Launceston really punches above its weight in terms of the sheer number of amazing cafés and restaurants serving good coffee,” Mrs Archer said.

“Our city is fortunate to have enterprising people like Kimberley who identified the amount of waste from used coffee grounds and took the initiative to start a program that reduces waste and benefits the environment.”

“Coffee grounds are full of nitrogen which makes it a fantastic addition to compost,” said Ms Eaton.

Golden Brown Tasmania has diverted over 6,000 kilos of used coffee grounds from landfill, thanks to a number of fantastic businesses who have signed up to be part of the project: Mad Apple, Stillwater Restaurant, Sweetbrew, Alps & Amici, Flick the Bean Coffee, Off Center and Princes Square Bar.

If you run a cafe and would love to see your coffee grounds diverted from landfill to compost, or want to purchase coffee grounds for your own compost email goldenbrown.tas@gmail.com