LOCCAL is proud to represent people and groups processing food and garden scraps within local areas such as neighbourhoods, schools, apartment complexes or towns, right across Australia. Community composters are quietly transforming the way we think about waste, soil, and each other.
Join us to help us grow our impact, strengthen our voice, and build a network of support for community composting projects across Australia.
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Our composters
Community composting is happening right across Australia – in schools, backyards, neighbourhood hubs and everything in between. Here are just some of the groups and people that make up the LOCCAL network. Click on the hyperlink to find out more.
Is your group missing? Get in touch and we’ll add you! Contact us at info@loccal.org
Addi Road community centre compost
Marrickville, NSW
Addi Road rescues surplus food for redistribution and composts whatever can’t be saved, turning it into rich organic soil to feed the gardens on site.
Brisbane City Council Community Compost Hubs
Brisbane, QLD
Brisbane City Council partners with 26 community composting hubs across the city, connecting residents with nearby garden compost bins and volunteer caretakers to keep food scraps out of landfill and nutrients in the soil
A community compost hub in inner north Melbourne serving 700+ residents and local cafes, restaurants and pubs — diverting tens of thousands of kilograms from landfill each year and selling finished compost back to the community for $5 a bucket.
CERES Environment Park
Brunswick East, VIC
CERES is an environmental education centre, community garden, urban farm and social enterprise hub spread across four locations, linked by the Merri and Darebin Creeks on Wurundjeri Country, Naarm (Melbourne). They compost the staff and cafe food scraps onsite.
Coffee and compost
Singleton, NSW
A monthly gathering at a café where compost-curious locals swap practical knowledge, exchange jars of compost, share surplus worm castings, and build lasting connections over a shared passion for keeping food scraps out of landfill.
Curly Community Garden Community Compost
North Curl Curl, NSW
To participate in the program, drop by the garden during a working bee on Saturdays 9-11am or Wednesdays 3-5pm to undergo a brief orientation.
Community compost hub located in the community garden.
Finbar Neighbourhood House Community Compost
Richmond, VIC
Finbar’s Community Garden Project has been operating for over 10years and is still going strong.
Gore St Compost Hub
Fitzroy, VIC
A private home in inner-city Melbourne opening its doors to neighbours as a local food scrap drop-off point.
Gumbuya Community Garden Compost
Sandgate, QLD
Our community composting hub is run by a BCC certified Master Composter and the AMAZING compost team on Monday at 3 – 4 pm. We make composting easy and fun. Everyone is welcome.
Jane Street Compost Hub
West End, QLD
Our composting hub is available for everyone to use! It is a simple system and an amazing way for us to reduce our negative impact on the planet.
Joondanna Community Garden Compost
Joondanna, WA
A huge worm farm, chooks and compost in vibrant, active and inspiring garden just north of Perth city.
Kelli, Canberra
Canberra, ACT
A Canberra gardener composting food scraps, garden waste and even natural fibre clothing for decades — and quietly rescuing surplus food from her local IGA to keep it out of landfill.
Kensington Community Powered Compost Network
Kensington, VIC
Network of public compost stations, business drop-offs and shared bins across the suburb, with finished compost going back into local community gardens.
Northey St City Farm
Windsor, QLD
They create beautiful compost for use in the market gardens and to sell at the nursery
Peels
Australia-wide
A free, volunteer-led website that connects people with food scraps to those who compost.
Pocket Compost
Woolloongabba, QLD
Pocket Compost turns fruit and vegetable scraps from local residents into beautiful compost for the Pocket Community Garden.
Port Environment Centre CoolSeat
Port Adelaide, SA
A public compost bay and community street garden outside the Port Environment Centre, where locals can drop off food scraps, pick fresh vegetables and herbs, and sit a while.
Seed the Ground
Gold Coast, QLD
We are a not-for-profit organisation located in the sunny slice of paradise that is the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. We divert bucket loads of waste from our local community weekly, with big aspirations for the circular economy of the Gold Coast. One step at a time…
Semaphore Compost Network
Port Adelaide, SA
The Compost Network aims to assist the regular collection and recycling of food ‘waste’ generated by local restaurants, cafes and food retailers across Adelaide’s North-West
Singleton Community Garden Community Compost
Singleton, NSW
The Singleton Community Garden is committed to composting our way to healthier, more productive soils.
St Lucia Community Garden Compost
St. Lucia, QLD
Volunteers run a BCC Community Compost Hub (so locals can turn their organic kitchen scraps and waste into rich and fertile compost rather than landfill)
Sustainable Chippendale
Chippendale, NSW
Residents and local cafes create compost in verge gardens on the verges in Chippendale.
Transition Bondi Community Compost
Bondi, NSW
Welcome to our community composting system, open to local residents and cafes
University of Tasmania Inveresk Campus
Launceston, TAS
The University of Tasmania’s Inveresk campus garden features 30+ raised beds, a hot composting bay system and an in-vessel composting machine processing up to 75kg of scraps daily – turning food and garden waste into compost for produce consumed almost entirely on campus.
YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) Composters
Castlemaine, VIC
YIMBY is a community-run backyard composting project across the Shire of Mt Alexander, connecting neighbours and composters.
Westside Community Garden
Alice Springs, NT
Get active, meet a great bunch of people and pick up some arid zone gardening tips at one of our regular working bees. There’s plenty to keep everyone busy – from planting, mulching, turning hot compost, harvesting and pruning.
Our partners
LOCCAL is part of a growing ecosystem of organisations working toward the same goal — supporting people and planet. We’re grateful to work alongside partners who share our values and help us reach more communities across Australia.
Community Gardens Australia (CGA) is the peak body and networking organisation connecting community gardeners around Australia.
Centre for Organic Research & Education (CORE) is a not-for-profit industry association whose mission is to enhance the beneficial re-use and upcycling of recovered resources in the circular economy
Peels is a platform connecting people with food scraps to those who can compost them.
Interested in collaborating with us?
Contact us at info@loccal.org