Councils increase uptake of Cardia Compostable products

Australian councils are expanding their uptake of Cardia Compostable waste management bags, manufactured by Cardia Bioplastics, for organic waste diversion programs.

Food and garden waste are the main sources of organic waste in landfills, as they are placed in residual waste bins by many households. According to programs such as Halve Waste and City to Soil, the average household garbage is made up of 20% food waste and 9% garden waste — all of which could be composted and used by local growers to improve soil fertility.

Over the last five years, Cardia Bioplastics has closely cooperated with councils, waste management companies and industrial composters to validate and optimise the product offering of its compostable kitchen tidy bags and kitchen tidy bins. The company’s products have since been successfully used by Albury City, City of Wodonga, and Corowa and Indigo Shires for their kitchen scraps and garden waste diversion programs.

Cardia has secured orders from four additional councils in the State of Victoria for large-scale organics diversion programs. Kitchen organic waste collection using Cardia Compostable bags will expand and cover approximately 100,000 households representing 5% of households in the state of Victoria.

“We are very excited that more Australian councils are adopting organic waste diversion programs and that our Cardia Compostable waste management products are the nominated choice for these programs,” said Cardia Bioplastics CEO Dr Frank Glatz. “Our waste management systems were developed to allow households to easily capture food scraps and garden waste to go into an organic waste stream and efficiently perform in industrial composting.

“As a business, we recognised that diverting organic waste from landfills using compostable bin liners has become essential as landfills are filling up and landfill prices are rising in line with this. We are seeing rapid growth in the uptake of our Cardia Compostable organic waste management systems amongst councils within Australia and throughout the world.”

Image caption: Cardia Compostable kitchen tidy bags used by councils for organic waste diversion programs.