{"id":17502,"date":"2021-05-01T04:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/?post_type=change&#038;p=17502"},"modified":"2021-05-10T18:15:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T08:15:48","slug":"change58-compost-bin","status":"publish","type":"change","link":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/change\/change58-compost-bin\/","title":{"rendered":"Start a compost&nbsp;bin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reincarnate those veggies with compost. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know that gross \u2018end bit\u2019 of a tomato that you never eat and always throw in the bin? It has bigger dreams than going to landfill. And now you can help it live on \u2013 with a compost bin.<\/p>\n<p>Put the tomato end (and any other food scraps you have) straight into a compost bin, let the worms do their thing (turning it all into mulch) and throw it straight back in the garden. All of a sudden, that tomato end is no longer the gross \u2018end bit\u2019, but is instead the fertile soil that a new batch of carrots can thrive in.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just tomato scraps we&#8217;re talking about here. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozharvest.org\/sustainability\/food-waste-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">research<\/a> shows that one third of all food produced is lost or wasted and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodwise.com.au\/foodwaste\/food-waste-fast-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">up to 41 percent<\/a> of our rubbish bins are filled with food waste. Composting food waste and keeping it out of landfill is a much better idea.<\/p>\n<p>But why is composting so much better than landfill? Well, in landfill, oxygen is low. That means organic materials rot and produce methane \u2013 a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n<p>You can help stop this by investing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uw5JVZSzMUA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">your own compost bin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wondering how else you can make a difference? Learn about our plans that support green energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to do your bit to reduce greenhouse gases? Invest in a compost&nbsp;bin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17508,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-17502","change","type-change","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/change"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}