Working together to transform the way people think about food waste and composting in Birmingham.
“If food waste were a country, it would be the third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind the USA and China.”
Compost Culture is a project working to transform people’s views around food waste and composting supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Birmingham-based organisations General Public, Incredible Surplus, The Active Wellbeing Society, St Paul’s Community Development Trust, Birmingham Friends of the Earth & Crick Gardens are working in partnership to develop a pioneering programme of composting initiatives across the city where you can learn about turning food scraps into beautiful compost which can then be used for growing fresh, nutritious food locally.
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E: project.incrediblesurplus@gmail.com
T: 07769530557
Visit MakeSoil to find nearby compost sites.
Strategic aims
- Supporting strategic development at local and national level around one of the big questions relating to Climate Action in densely populated urban environments: how do we manage our food waste?
- Researching and testing a range of models for what an embedded food waste composting system will look like for a complex, culturally diverse urban environment.
- Sharing our learning and helping to build a resilient, self-sustaining network of composting and food growing activity across the city.
The Compost Culture project was conceived by General Public & developed with our project partners and the wider incredible Surplus community.
