LOCCAL represents community-led and community-operated composting across Australia – people and groups processing food and garden scraps within local areas such as neighbourhoods, schools, apartment complexes or towns.
LOOKING FOR A DROP-OFF NEAR YOU?
Find a compost drop-off on the Peels map
Peels is a free community map connecting people who have food scraps with local composters who can take them – backyard composters, community gardens, and businesses across Australia.
Free to use – non-commercial, community project.
LOCCAL community 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.
Is your group missing? Contact us at info@loccal.org
Addi Road Community Centre Compost
Marrickville, Sydney
Addi Road rescues surplus food for redistribution and composts whatever can’t be saved, turning it into rich organic soil to feed the on-site gardens.
Brisbane City Council Community Compost Hubs
City Wide, Brisbane
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.
Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre Community Compost Hub
Carlton, Melbourne
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, Melbourne
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, Hunter Valley
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, Sydney
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.
Denmark Kwoorabup Community Garden community compost
Denmark, Great Southern Region
Community compost hub located in the community garden.
Finbar Neighbourhood House Community Compost
Richmond, Melbourne
Finbar’s Community Garden Project has been operating for over 10years and is still going strong.
Gore St Compost Hub
Fitzroy, Melbourne
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, Brisbane
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, Brisbane
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, Perth
A huge worm farm, chooks and compost in vibrant, active and inspiring garden just north of Perth city.
Kelli, composter
Canberra
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, Melbourne
Network of public compost stations, business drop-offs and shared bins across the suburb, with finished compost going back into local community gardens.
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Northey St City Farm
Windsor, Brisbane
They create beautiful compost for use in the market gardens and to sell at the nursery
Pocket Compost
Woolloongabba, Brisbane
Pocket Compost turns fruit and vegetable scraps from local residents into beautiful compost for the Pocket Community Garden.
Port Environment Centre CoolSeat
Port Adelaide
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
Southern Gold Coast
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
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
The Singleton Community Garden is committed to composting our way to healthier, more productive soils.
St Lucia Community Garden Compost
St Lucia, Brisbane
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, Sydney
Residents and local cafes create compost in verge gardens on the verges in Chippendale.
Transition Bondi Community Compost
Bondi, Sydney
Welcome to our community composting system, open to local residents and cafes
University of Tasmania Inveresk Campus
Launceston
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
YIMBY is a community-run backyard composting project across the Shire of Mt Alexander, connecting neighbours and composters.
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Westside Community Garden
Alice Springs
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.
Join us to help us grow our impact, strengthen our voice, and build a network of support for community composting projects across Australia.
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.
Peels is a platform connecting people with food scraps to those who can compost them.
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
Interested in collaborating with us?
Contact us at info@loccal.org