Cleanaway’s new organics processing facility near Mildura will soon turn the region’s garden waste and food scraps into compost for local farms.
Up to 11,000 tonnes of food and garden organics (FOGO) collected through Mildura Rural City Council’s kerbside green bin service will be processed at Cleanaway’s Thurla organics composting facility each year.
Up until now, Cleanaway has been transporting all Mildura’s FOGO to a commercial Cleanaway composting contractor 300 kilometres outside the region.
Construction of Cleanaway’s Thurla organics processing facility was assisted by the Australian Government’s Food Waste for Healthy Soils Fund and the Victorian Government’s Circular Economy Organics Sector Transformation Fund.
The $7.4 million Thurla facility was officially opened yesterday.
Image: Mildura Rural City Council
