A pair of Griffith University researchers has investigated the application of lean and green thinking to turn food waste from the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) into a super dynamic compost.
Associate Professor Cheryl Desha, who is head of Civil Engineering in the School of Engineering and Built Environment, and lead researcher Savindi Caldera, who are both from Griffith’s Cities Research Institute, are validating and documenting a novel process that effectively “greens the Gold Coast with food waste” that has been collected from GC2018 venues, thereby saving it from landfill.
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The research team engaged a Woongoolba waste processing plant to mix green waste (tree parts, twigs) and sugar cane mulch with food waste collected from Games venues (including the GC2018 Commonwealth Games Village and all venues where there were food outlets, cafes, canteens etc).
The process improves the degradation of the food waste into an
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