Healthy & Sustainable Gardens Program (Victoria, Australia 2006-2007)
 
The Healthy and Sustainable Gardens Program encourages environmentally friendly gardening practices in the community through the use of compost and mulch made entirely from recycled materials. The promotion allows customers buying recycled organic products at participating garden centres to save at least 25% off recommended retail prices. In addition, a limited number of the first purchases in each Council area get free delivery to the value of $20*. The promotion commenced on 5 October 2006 and ended on 11 December 2006.

Create a Healthy Garden with Compost and Mulch

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Not only do these organic products save you money, they have great benefits for your garden including:
  • reducing water needs (saving you time in watering the garden);
  • providing improved plant vigour and survival (saving you money on new plants);
  • preventing weed growth (reducing your time spent weeding);
  • adding vital nutrients and carbon to the soil (saving you money on repeated fertiliser use); and
  • providing soil structure and overall soil health (helping soil microbes and vital organisms to help your plants).
Compost and mulches are made by the controlled composting of community green waste collected by your Council. The organic material is composted at professional local licensed composting facilities and monitored to national composting standards (AS/NZS 4454: 2003 - Composts, Soil Conditioners and Mulches). Compost Use Can Create a Healthy Garden
 
The project demonstrates the benefits of recycling to the whole community. It shows the need for the community to provide their organics to Council for recycling and to only put vegetation materials in the green waste bins.
 
If you do not not put your green waste in the correct recycling bin it may be put disposed into landfill and the valuable organic resource is lost forever. In landfills in anaerobic (lacking oxygen) conditions the material degrades into leachates and methane that cause harm to the environment. Leachate run-off can harm local waterways and methane contributes to global warming.
 
We encourage you take part in this wonderful program that helps your garden, saves you money and helps to help the environment be healthy for you, your children and their children.
 
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