ARE YOU OUR NEW FOOD WASTE LOOP PROJECT OFFICER?

22/07/2022 By

ARE YOU OUR NEW FOOD WASTE LOOP PROJECT OFFICER?

Are you passionate about sustainability? Are you good at working with people? Do you enjoy problem solving? Delivering projects? Able to work autonomously and are self-motivated? And most importantly do you want to make a positive difference to your community?

Then here’s an exciting opportunity for you! The Yandina Community Gardens (YCG) is looking for a motivated and experienced person for a Project Officer role. YCG has received funding to move our Food Waste Diversion project, Food Waste Loop, into Stage 2 of the project. The Project Officer will work with YCG’s volunteers and management committee lead the Food Waste Loop program into its next stage. You will continue to run the program including collection & processing of the townships food waste alongside our volunteers. This role is for 12 hours/ week (across 2 days) on an 18 month contract.For more information about the Food Waste Loop program, see here.

Required skills / knowledge:

Tertiary qualifications and/or experience in environmental science, permaculture or related discipline.
Experience in planning, implementing and evaluating community projects.
Experience in composting and or worm farming.
Experience in community engagement and developing partnerships with stakeholders
Excellent communication and networking skills
Experience delivering compost education desired but not essential
Experience working with volunteers/ working for a volunteer-run organisation preferred but not essential
Experience in social enterprise desired but not essential
Ability to perform moderate physical work and not shy away from food waste!
Must have your own vehicle and willing to collect many buckets of food waste.

If this sounds like a role for you, please send your application, addressing the required skills / knowledge to compost@yandinacommunitygardens.com.au
We look forward to hearing from you!

Remuneration:

$32/hr + 0.72c/km.

Applications close 29th July 2022 at 5pm.

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Food Waste Loop – What’s happening in September?

12/09/2020 By

Yandina Community Gardens Food Waste Loop program has been operating for just over a month and we couldn’t be happier with the impact we’ve had already! We have diverted over 1.25 tonnes of waste, and saved over 2,400kg of C02-e emissions from our beautiful environment.

We have 10 businesses onboard who are happily separating their waste, and redirecting it for a greater purpose! We are so happy we are able to utilise this resource rather than it end up wasted in landfill.

Our hot compost piles are cooking, we are feeding our worms a variety of great scraps, and it’s warming up for the black soldier larvae. Check out a few photos from the past month.

Our compost piles built by are volunteers are hot!

Inspecting our worm farm!

One of our Food Waste Loop partners, proud to be part of the program!

Project Officer, Emily Boyd, weighing and recording the waste before it’s added to the hot compost pile.

Chief compost inspector, Louie-Jay.

To share the journey with us, follow us on Facebook (Yandina Community Gardens), and Instagram (@ycgfoodwasteloop)

Food Waste Loop

12/09/2020 By

About the Food Waste Loop project:

Yandina Community Gardens program, Food Waste Loop, diverts food ‘waste’ from Yandina’s food businesses into compost systems.

Yandina Community Gardens have created a localised waste management system. We have partnered with cafes, restaurants, coffee roastery’s, and grocery stores and divert the towns waste into three different compost systems. These are aerobic hot compost, worm farm composting, and black soldier fly larvae composting! We are recording how much of Yandina town waste we are able to process, and evaluating the viability of the Food Waste Loop program to be replicated across Australia.

This program reduces greenhouse gas emissions generated by landfills, whilst creating a valuable, nutrient-rich compost resource. We imagine a future where food ‘waste’ was actually not wasted, and was turned into an amazing resource for the local community to enjoy.

The Australian Government has committed to halve the amount of organic waste sent to landfill for disposal by 2030, as per the National Waste Policy Action Plan. This means a reduction of 2.7 million tonnes of organic waste that is currently thrown out and ends up in landfill. The township of Yandina is playing a direct role in helping meet these targets. We are working towards easing the load on the following issues:

• Eliminating global food waste would save 4.4 million tonnes of C02 a year, the equivalent of taking one in four cars off the road

• If food waste was a country, it would be the third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after USA and China

• The Government estimates food waste costs the Australian economy $20 billion each year

• Over 5 million tonnes of food ends up as landfill each year, enough to fill 9,000 Olympic sized swimming pools

• Landfill gas contributes 15 million tonnes to Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.

OzHarvest, 2020

The Food Waste Loop program commenced June 2020. This project received grant funding from the Australian Government’s Communities Environment Program.

To share the journey with us, follow us on Facebook (Yandina Community Gardens), and Instagram (@ycgfoodwasteloop)