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Compost-A-Pak Review and Giveaway

August 9, 2013 · 160 Comments

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Environmentally-friendly living is one area that we are still trying to find our way with. We are far from perfect, but we do try. I want to be an eco-warrior but sometimes life just gets in the way! The recent Plastic Free July campaign made us look at our plastic useage and try to cut it down even more. One thing I just couldn’t work out a solution for was plastic bin bags. I tried the newspaper thing but oh my gosh, what a mess! Not very user-friendly for families.

 

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Then the gorgeous Natasha from Aussie company, Compost-A-Pak contacted me to let me know about their bags. I confess I did get a little excited about waste management! She sent me some bags to try out and I learnt more about the other ways you can use them – it was even cooler than I first thought.

 

Okay, so let me tell you few facts about waste disposal and how it impacts on the environment.

* Composting. Almost 50% of Australian household waste is organic and can be composted so the nutrients are returned to the soil. Unfortunately, much of this waste ends up in landfills, not back in our gardens. In landfills, it creates harmful carbon gases and liquid, which continue to escape and impact of environment and local animals for up to thirty years. We really should all be making an effort to compost and use it on our gardens.

 

* Plastic Bags.  Each year an estimated 36,700 tons of plastic bags alone end up in landfills, not including those that are littered. It’s known that they take up to 100 years to breakdown. Eeeeep!!

 

* Green Shopping Bags. The ‘environmental’ green bags are an improvement on plastic bags as they are reusable. But did you know that these bags are made of polypropylene, a fossil fuel-based plastic, the same indestructible material used to make car bumpers and wheelie bins? These bags are preserved in landfill for hundreds of years.  Not so ‘green’ after all? I think we were ‘greenwashed’ on that one!

 

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Compost-A-Pak bin liners

 

Okay, so given these problems, the guys at Compost-A-Pak decided we needed bags that are truly compostable. They created a range of bin liners in various sizes and shopping bags that are Australian certified as 100% compostable – there is no harmful residue left in the soil once the bags break down. They take about the same time as a dry leaf to breakdown.

 

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Reusuable Shopping Bags
Cool, right?

 

Okay, so what are they made of? The bags and liners are made of corn starch, a seasonal crop. Third grade corn which is not suitable for human consumption, is sourced from international regions with high rainfall to ensure there is no need for irrigation. The bags are printed with a soy based ink. They are quite durable and you wouldn’t notice a difference using them compared to plastic bags.

 

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How do you use them?

 

1. Swap over.

Make a direct swap to the compostable bin liners and shopping bags. That way, you know that you are not contributing more plastic to landfill. That eases my eco-guilt and makes me happy.

 

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kitchen caddys lined with the compostable bin liners

 

2. Start composting.

 

*Kitchen Starter Pack. Use the compostable bin liners inside the bench top kitchen caddy. Put your organic waste in the bin, tie it up and go and put the whole thing in your compost bin. Loving it. No more smelly compost bins to wash out!

 

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*Composting Pack.  The composting pack is the kitchen starter pack plus this cool Earth Machine composter. Perfect if you need the whole shebang!

 

Yes, I may be overly excited about waste-management and composting! I think these products are pretty awesome. They make being an eco-warrior pretty easy and manageable for every day families. We all know that if change is easy, we are going to keep it up. If it’s too complicated, it will fall by the wayside and we won’t keep it up long-term.

 

I like to think I can help change the world, one bin bag at a time!

Want to try them out for yourself? You can purchase them online at the website,  at selected retail outlets or you can win some, right here on the blog!

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Giveaway:

**This giveaway has now closed! The winners were Melissa, Stacey, Cathy, Caz and Krista! Well done girls **

Natasha is kindly giving away 5 Compost-A-Pak packs. Included in each is a kitchen caddy, a 6 months supply of 8 litre liners, and 5 Reusable Shopping Bags.

To enter:

* SUBSCRIBE to the blog. Add your email to the top right hand side.

* LIKE the Compost-A-Pak Facebook page. Go here.

* COMMENT on this blog post, telling us one thing that can go in compost bins.

Terms and conditions:

This giveaway is only available to Australian residents. It is open from now until Friday the 17th of August at midnite. Five winners will be chosen using random.org from those meeting the entry requirements. The winners will be announced on the blog post and emailed (make sure you make a note to check!) Good Luck.

 Offers:

* Join the Compost-A-Pak Facebook page and take advantage of the special offer – get 50% off the purchase of a single pack of liners to trial.

* Exclusive to Natural New Age Mum blog subscribers! Purchase the Kitchen Starter Pack at only $19.95 (plus delivery) and receive 5 reusable shopping bags for free. That’s $10 worth of additional value!  Just use the code FREEBAGS at the checkout!

Offers expire Friday the 17th of August at midnite.

 

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  1. Nicola James says

    August 9, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    What a great idea, perfect for all my vegetable offcuts and apple cores!

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  2. Kirsty Williams says

    August 9, 2013 at 6:42 pm

    So clever! These would solve so many of my plastic issues, would love to win this giveaway! Veggie pulp from my juicer will be going into my compost when I get setup.

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  3. Shannon Morgan says

    August 9, 2013 at 6:45 pm

    Sounds like a great product! Any fruit or veggie scraps without seeds (no citrus) can be composted, as well as lots of other household waste like tea bags!

    Reply
  4. Julie Wogandt says

    August 9, 2013 at 6:57 pm

    I love these bags and I already have been using them for over a year- they are fantastic and breakdown great. You of course can put them in to your compost also egg shell is another. Julie

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  5. Cassandra Moodie says

    August 9, 2013 at 7:04 pm

    All my leftover pulp from juicing!

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  6. Emma says

    August 9, 2013 at 7:11 pm

    Great idea!

    Pet hair is compostable 😉

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  7. Liza Neumann says

    August 9, 2013 at 7:12 pm

    Eggshells are ok for the compost. These are a great idea, my partner works in waste management, he is always complaining about the amount of stuff people throw out. Makes it easy for me to change him to an eco warrior (or hippy as he calls me)

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  8. Karen says

    August 9, 2013 at 7:19 pm

    would love this as we do juice fasting and end up wasting the pulp…would love one of these for the juice pulp…minus the citrus as I have read it’s no good for composte

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  9. Johanna says

    August 9, 2013 at 7:33 pm

    Great, perfect for our veggie peelings!

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  10. Madelaine says

    August 9, 2013 at 7:35 pm

    Yes, juicer pulp. We make a lot of it. I have been looking for a good garden compost bin. Off to check out the website. Thanks Sonia!

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  11. Susan Porter says

    August 9, 2013 at 7:39 pm

    I would love the compost able bags. And have used two bins for years. I place them in my garden, and as the compost break down, Nutrients are fed straight into my garden. I compost small quantities of anything that will break down along with scraps newspaper lawn clippings and a sprinkle of organic dynamic lifter ( just helps the process along. Cheers Sue . Oh always room for more bins.

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  12. Monique says

    August 9, 2013 at 7:39 pm

    Dust from the vacuum can also be composted.

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  13. Belinda says

    August 9, 2013 at 7:41 pm

    Awesome product…..so sick of having the icky juices pour over my hands as i’m emptying the plastic bag full of vegie scraps and hubby’s coffee granules into the compost – much much EASIER and ENVIRONMENTALLY friendly to be able to throw the whole thing into it!!!

    Good work – nice to know of peeps making the world a better place x

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  14. Heather says

    August 9, 2013 at 7:45 pm

    Veg peelings 🙂

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  15. Rachel Kriss-Newell says

    August 9, 2013 at 7:49 pm

    We put the fallen leaves from our trees into our compost.

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  16. Fiona says

    August 9, 2013 at 7:57 pm

    I love to put the fruit/veggie pulp from juicing in the compost.

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  17. kelly skuse says

    August 9, 2013 at 8:02 pm

    Veggie scraps

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  18. AmberB says

    August 9, 2013 at 8:13 pm

    Vegetable peelings

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  19. Nicole says

    August 9, 2013 at 8:22 pm

    Look great. Carrot peelings can be composted.

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  20. Sarah-Jane Boehm says

    August 9, 2013 at 8:25 pm

    I want to compost all my organic veggie scraps and egg shells!

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  21. Liz says

    August 9, 2013 at 8:25 pm

    paper mushroom bags 🙂

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  22. Carly W says

    August 9, 2013 at 8:25 pm

    The chook poop and used straw after I clean their nesting box.

    Reply
  23. Mary Preston says

    August 9, 2013 at 8:26 pm

    All of our fruit & vegetable peelings and scraps.

    (This is brilliant thank you.)

    FB: Mary Preston

    Subscriber:

    marypres(AT)gmail(DOT)com

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  24. Ama Abejja says

    August 9, 2013 at 8:50 pm

    Definitely our morning milkshake scraps of banana skins, strawberry tops. I also can’t wait to add the dinner veggie scraps too. They’ll turn into glorious compost for my veggie garden. It’ll be amazing to turn veggies into more healthy veggies =D

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  25. Brenda says

    August 9, 2013 at 8:55 pm

    All my fruit and vegetable peelings and scraps!

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  26. Georgia Fennessy says

    August 9, 2013 at 9:22 pm

    Hair, newspapers, tissues- we love composting here, so satisfying to see our soil replenished with our household scraps & ‘Hello worms!!’

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  27. Veronica says

    August 9, 2013 at 9:35 pm

    Love this. Hope I win 🙂
    Our food scraps which we throw on our garden can go in to the compost .

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  28. Nicole says

    August 9, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    Love this idea, I have been thinking about giving my food scraps to the community garden for their compost and this would be perfect. I’m not into gardening but I hate seeing all the veggie peels, banana skins, apple n pear cores, corn cobs go to the tip and be wasted.

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  29. Helen says

    August 9, 2013 at 9:53 pm

    Great for composting coffee grounds!

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  30. Alisha says

    August 9, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    Ohmygodohmygodohmygod!!! Banana skins!!!! Crossing fingers!!!!

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  31. Iwa Brown says

    August 9, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    This is pretty exciting!! I have really missed composting our fruit and veg scraps and also having a veggie patch… Next house we live in i will be getting back into it (we have no yard where we live currently!).

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  32. Suzie Love says

    August 9, 2013 at 10:23 pm

    Apple cores for sure and I eat a lot of those. Great giveaway too.

    Reply
  33. Janet says

    August 9, 2013 at 10:49 pm

    Tea bags!

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  34. Rebecca says

    August 9, 2013 at 11:48 pm

    How fabulous! I put so many things into the compost, including used tea leaves 🙂

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  35. Rachel K says

    August 10, 2013 at 2:03 am

    What a wonderful idea. This would ensure I actually put the stuff in the compost as it is right there on my bench top! I’d place vegetable and fruit peels, as well as coffee grounds in it. Too easy!

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  36. Joanna says

    August 10, 2013 at 7:28 am

    My guinea pigs get out vege peelings 😉 so it is anything and everything Rosie & Yoyo don’t eat!

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  37. Nicole E says

    August 10, 2013 at 7:33 am

    Apple cores! 🙂

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  38. Jo Lamb says

    August 10, 2013 at 7:33 am

    My 7 year old daughter says apple cores can go in compost bins.

    Reply
  39. Andrea says

    August 10, 2013 at 8:16 am

    Love products like this…. un likely products that could go into the compost is teabags, hair, and even cotton products 🙂

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  40. Sally says

    August 10, 2013 at 8:38 am

    We literally just started our compost pile, so I would love to win.

    Reply
  41. Deb Fayad says

    August 10, 2013 at 9:17 am

    The fruit my toddler mashes instead of eats.

    What a great solution. If I don’t win it I might have to buy it.

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  42. Dani says

    August 10, 2013 at 9:26 am

    What a great idea, will be telling all my friends. We compost fruit and veggie scraps. 🙂

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  43. Naomi says

    August 10, 2013 at 9:41 am

    All my children’s 3/4 eaten fruit and the dark bits of banana they refuse to eat! 🙂

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  44. Tara says

    August 10, 2013 at 10:07 am

    Coffee grinds….and there are a lot of those here in this sleep deprived house!

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  45. Jenny says

    August 10, 2013 at 11:06 am

    Hair, when you clean your hairbrush and shower drain, composts well 🙂

    Reply
  46. Jasmine says

    August 10, 2013 at 11:58 am

    Leaves
    fruit & vegetable scraps

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  47. Pam says

    August 10, 2013 at 1:04 pm

    Juicer pulp! (tried making muffins out of it…bleurgh lol). Would love to win! Makes it seem so easy!

    Reply
  48. jemimah i says

    August 10, 2013 at 1:35 pm

    Banana peels, we have at least 3 a day in my house as my little monkeys love bananas. They also love helping me take the compost out!

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  49. Caz says

    August 10, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    Love this! I shred papers that I don’t want to go straight in the recycling bin and pop them in the compost.

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  50. Jo says

    August 10, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    Fantastic products, so clever!
    Tea & coffee scraps can be composted. 🙂

    Reply
  51. Alison says

    August 10, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    Strawberry tops!

    Reply
  52. Melissa says

    August 10, 2013 at 2:17 pm

    Banana peels, chard veins and juice pulp! Tea leaves and occasionally coffee grounds too… Thanks for sharing these products! It’s just what we need!

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  53. Meredith says

    August 10, 2013 at 2:19 pm

    I believe coffee grind is great for composting!! I would love to try that.

    Reply
  54. Jacinta says

    August 10, 2013 at 4:37 pm

    I thought that a lot of the plastic shopping bags were already made of cornstarch or a compostable material? Not sure, just thought I’d heard something of the sort….

    Reply
  55. Leanne Pearce says

    August 10, 2013 at 5:00 pm

    All my fruit n vege peel plus the tea leaves n egg shells

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  56. Melanie says

    August 10, 2013 at 5:46 pm

    I think I need another compost bin! We compost anything we can: fruit, veg, egg shells, coffee grounds, tea bags, paper bags, compostable bags. Love seeing all the worms in action!

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  57. Courtney Lawler says

    August 10, 2013 at 6:55 pm

    Egg shells, hair, fruit and vegie scraps

    Reply
  58. Michelle W says

    August 10, 2013 at 6:59 pm

    Coffee grounds can go in a compost bin , great nitrogen rich material.

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  59. Lin says

    August 10, 2013 at 7:15 pm

    Potato peelings!

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  60. Clare says

    August 10, 2013 at 7:16 pm

    What a great product. Am so glad I now know about this. I put dead flowers in my compost bin.

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  61. Trisha says

    August 10, 2013 at 7:29 pm

    Awesomesauce!!
    I compost citrus peels and onion scraps as they are no good for my worm farm 🙂

    Reply
  62. Krista says

    August 10, 2013 at 7:31 pm

    Snotty tissues!

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  63. Elizabeth says

    August 10, 2013 at 7:40 pm

    Empty egg cartons

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  64. Amelia says

    August 10, 2013 at 7:47 pm

    Thank you so much for this post and giveaway! I have been looking for something just like this! All of our copious amount of veggie scraps will be going in our compost once we get it set up 🙂

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  65. Rachael says

    August 10, 2013 at 7:59 pm

    What a fantastic idea! I’d love to teach my son to help me compost everything possible, from the peelings to the ‘off’ fruit.

    Reply
  66. Maureen Dempsey says

    August 10, 2013 at 8:00 pm

    These look great!!! I would put all of my fruit and vegs scraps into it.

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  67. Marissa says

    August 10, 2013 at 8:42 pm

    Awesome products, would love to try these. Newspaper, veggie scraps, brown leaf matter etc can go in a composting bin. 😉

    Reply
  68. Stephanie Veljanovska says

    August 10, 2013 at 8:46 pm

    Food Scraps Galore can go in Compost but the one That sticks out to me is Carrots as Peeling them makes a lot of Scraps to go into the Compost Bin.

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  69. Jenni says

    August 10, 2013 at 8:55 pm

    My organic loose tea leaves!

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  70. Fiona says

    August 10, 2013 at 9:19 pm

    Guinea pig waste when we clean out the cage

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  71. Kirsten W says

    August 10, 2013 at 9:52 pm

    Vegie scraps….love this 🙂

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  72. Kim maree says

    August 10, 2013 at 10:26 pm

    Banana skins

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  73. Emma-Kate says

    August 10, 2013 at 11:22 pm

    All my pre-schooler’s dinner leftovers go in the compost – one week he is eating close to an adult sized meal, the next picking like a toddler again! Fickle food behaviour only made less frustrating because I can at least add the surplus to the compost!

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  74. Amanda says

    August 10, 2013 at 11:49 pm

    My husband and I were just talking about this today! Thank you so much for showing us an alternative. Now we plan to use cardboard boxes for our shopping and buy these for our bins (instead of plastic shopping bags). This is very exciting!!

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  75. Shannon says

    August 11, 2013 at 12:19 am

    I would love to win this!!! I compost cardboard from cereals packets etc, egg containers and nut shells too!!!

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  76. April Eveleigh says

    August 11, 2013 at 1:00 am

    One thing that can go in a compost bin is fruit and vegetable peels, such as apple skins.

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  77. Toni says

    August 11, 2013 at 7:56 am

    All our tea leaves, fruit & veg waste! Been looking for something for shopping finally found them,

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  78. Sophie W says

    August 11, 2013 at 9:22 am

    I’ve been so wanting to get our composting happening, but have lacked the time I thought it required to build a system. This looks like a very easy and well thought-out system. I’d put all our bread, stale rice cakes, fruit & vegie scraps, coffee grounds, etc in. We have guinea pigs & a rabbit, so I’d give them the things they like to eat out of the scraps, before putting the rest into the actual composter.

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  79. Ann-Maree says

    August 11, 2013 at 10:21 am

    In my house lots of apple cores go into the compost – my kids eat apples like they’re going out of fashion!

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  80. Jeannine Barrett says

    August 11, 2013 at 1:28 pm

    This looks like a fantastic product, sure beats my silly bin under the sink that gets smelly and nasty. I compost everything I can including vegie/fruit scraps, grass clippings and tea bags.

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  81. Cathy Stone says

    August 11, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    Fine Ash from your wood fire, adds an element to the compost mix and is great to put on your roses.

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  82. Cathy Stone says

    August 11, 2013 at 5:27 pm

    I subscribed to your blog and liked the Compost-A-Pak facebook page.

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  83. GillyFae says

    August 11, 2013 at 8:46 pm

    I use coffee pods at home and I love that you can open the used pods, recycle the capsule and compost the coffee grounds!

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  84. Billie-Jo says

    August 12, 2013 at 9:34 am

    Would be perfect for my vegie peelings! And I am trying to start up an organic garden so making my own compost would be perfect 🙂

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  85. Melissa Puli says

    August 12, 2013 at 10:52 am

    all the left over veggie and fruit peelings!!! What a great idea!

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  86. Trish says

    August 12, 2013 at 11:21 am

    Our food scraps and vegie scraps that we don’t give to my nephew’s pet pig.

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  87. Sharon says

    August 12, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    Love this! Great idea! I add vege scraps and a lot of fruit scraps, tea bags and coffee bags. Tea leaves and coffee grounds are put direct to some plants. I’d love to end the smelly scrap kitchen tidy!

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  88. Kimberly says

    August 12, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    All our juicing scraps and newspaper !! Thanks for recommending a great page !!

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  89. Karine says

    August 12, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    Paper towel, paper serviettes, dead flower arrangements, ash from fireplace

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  90. Cassy says

    August 12, 2013 at 2:49 pm

    If I won one of these, the kitchen caddy would get a great workout with all the fruit and vegetable skins/peels that my 3 hungry (starving!!!) boys (aged 5, almost 3 and almost 2) go through… it’s nuts here, I go through something ridiculous like at least 1kg of apples, 1kg mandarins, 1kg strawberries, 2kg bananas, 1/2kg oranges, 1kg tomatoes, 1/2kg capsicum, 1/2kg sugar snaps, 1kg cucumbers… and that’s each week!!! When we move (soon, soon!) I am definitely starting a great vegie patch and a fruit patch (to save me some money?!), and a compost bin, of course!

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  91. Melissa Jones says

    August 12, 2013 at 2:58 pm

    Such a great idea. Vegies or fruits scraps!

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  92. Fiona says

    August 12, 2013 at 2:59 pm

    Wombat poo. It’s amazing in the compost and the worm farm.

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  93. Phelicia Whillans says

    August 12, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    What a great giveaway! Perfect for all the fruit and veg scraps and egg shells. Love it!

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  94. Alison says

    August 12, 2013 at 3:24 pm

    Veggie peelings

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  95. mellie jane says

    August 12, 2013 at 3:39 pm

    Veggie peelings :0)

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  96. Anna says

    August 12, 2013 at 3:40 pm

    Fantastic. Don’t like having the supermarket bags for bin liners.
    All my veggie scraps can go in these compost able bin liners.
    Egg shells, tea leaves and fruit peelings

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  97. Jodi Brennan says

    August 12, 2013 at 3:48 pm

    Great, finally some ‘actual’ eco friendly bags. Great to see. And a great blog post as always making it all nice and easy to understand and operate. My husband’s mission is to have no green waste leave our property and go into landfill. We compost everything! (yes our pile is pretty big but breaking down beautifully). Our Macadamia nut husks from all of our trees has broken down nicely into beautiful soil ready for spring planting.

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  98. Sandra says

    August 12, 2013 at 4:04 pm

    Veg scraps and peelings.

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  99. Judith says

    August 12, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    I have wanted this type of system for soooooo long. Thanks so much for sharing this great information for us. All the tea leaves & spice left overs from my chai can go int he compost!

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  100. Frances says

    August 12, 2013 at 5:13 pm

    When we get our compost bins going, hubby is collecting pallets to make a set of 3 up. Veges peelings and tea bags, chook manure, paper waste.

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  101. Jessie Hay says

    August 12, 2013 at 5:53 pm

    Potato peel can be composted 🙂

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  102. Casey says

    August 12, 2013 at 6:37 pm

    These products are awesome! I was only thinking today that I should start composting. Banana peel can be composted 🙂

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  103. Amelia says

    August 12, 2013 at 8:02 pm

    Tea leaves and egg shells

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  104. Kerri says

    August 12, 2013 at 8:42 pm

    Great idea, easy for the kids to pop in the compost now without turning up their noses. Oh and I reckon teabags could go in too.

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  105. bubble936 says

    August 12, 2013 at 9:02 pm

    I have SUBSCRIBED to the blog.
    I have LIKED the Compost-A-Pak Facebook page.
    Vegetable and fruit peels can definitely go in compost bins…

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  106. Fawn Williams says

    August 12, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    What a great idea! I love to throw my coffee granules and eggs shells into my compost.

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  107. Summer Hinaki-McDade says

    August 12, 2013 at 10:43 pm

    fruit (except citrus, for some reason i am thinking banana peels too?) and vege peelings are great for compost 🙂

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  108. Jennifer B. says

    August 13, 2013 at 1:44 pm

    ALL our fruit and vegie scraps get composted – except citrus fruits… The acidity kills the worms.

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  109. Hilary says

    August 13, 2013 at 1:47 pm

    I clip my dogs myself and guess where all that hair goes?!…

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  110. karina w says

    August 13, 2013 at 8:01 pm

    Fruit and vege scraps.

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  111. Al says

    August 13, 2013 at 8:27 pm

    This really excites me too!!! We compost fruit and veg scraps (minus citrus and onions), tea bags and coffee grounds. Through this post I’ve learnt of lots of new thing we can compost, also heard toilet rolls the other day 🙂

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  112. Nadine says

    August 13, 2013 at 8:28 pm

    Plenty of egg shells too to compost

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  113. Emma says

    August 13, 2013 at 8:44 pm

    Gee I’ve definitely learnt a . Few ideas we compost fruit veg coffee ground and tea bags now ill be doing a lot more

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  114. Alicia Blake says

    August 13, 2013 at 8:45 pm

    B-an-an-as lots and lots of banana skins. My 3 little ones devour these.

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  115. Stacey Shailer says

    August 13, 2013 at 9:20 pm

    Egg shells, they give a real ‘boost’ to my compost!

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  116. Robyn Farrar says

    August 13, 2013 at 9:58 pm

    Dryer lint!!

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  117. Alyce Mostert says

    August 13, 2013 at 10:57 pm

    What a great idea! Some people are so clever and inspirational 🙂

    I would be able to collect up all my own and my long-haired dachshunds’ hair moultings and add them to the compost! And all that vacuum-cleaner dust from my trusty little robotic vacuum. Sooooo many things from our lives can be included in this! Nifty!

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  118. kelly Walter says

    August 14, 2013 at 1:35 pm

    Coffee grounds can go in a compost bin As it is a Great source of nitrogen and worms love coffee grounds!

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  119. Samantha says

    August 14, 2013 at 1:54 pm

    Oh my gosh! I need one of these with all the juicing I do! We eat eggs like they are going out of style as well, so all the juicing pulp and all our 1000000’s of egg shells would love a home in one of these!

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  120. Belinda Baker says

    August 14, 2013 at 7:44 pm

    All of our compostable food scraps already go to our chookies, we compost grass clippings

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  121. Mick G says

    August 14, 2013 at 8:24 pm

    Veggie, fruit and tea bags

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  122. Danya Banya says

    August 14, 2013 at 10:39 pm

    Shreaded paper and garden waste (to balance out all the kitchen scraps!)

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  123. Karlene says

    August 14, 2013 at 11:35 pm

    Fruit and vege scraps

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  124. Kelly Anderson says

    August 16, 2013 at 8:57 am

    I would live to compost to kick along my vege garden

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  125. Alexia Bates says

    August 16, 2013 at 8:59 am

    Ooh all my scrap from my veg and fruit juice every morning!

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  126. Cass says

    August 16, 2013 at 9:10 am

    All of our fruit and vegie scraps 🙂

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  127. Natalie says

    August 16, 2013 at 9:26 am

    Hair can be composted 🙂

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  128. Terri O'Sullivan says

    August 16, 2013 at 9:29 am

    I would love to win this – I need to set up my herb/Vegie garden again. At the moment I use an old ice cream container inside for compost, having more space with a compostable bag I could throw in the outside compost bin would definitely be more convenient!!! I love composting coffee and Crio Bru grounds along with the usual fruit and veg scraps.

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  129. Lj says

    August 16, 2013 at 9:59 am

    We love putting out veggie peelings, scraps and fruit in to the compost. Great for our garden and great for the environment.

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  130. Lisa Bicknell says

    August 16, 2013 at 10:02 am

    This kit is what I have been searching for! If looks easy, so that means I will compost more 🙂 Ground coffee beans are great to add to compost.

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  131. Bessie says

    August 16, 2013 at 10:32 am

    I would put in any of my peels from potatoes, cucumber, fruit pulp, egg shells, any scraps. My kids love to garden and this will be a whole new fun activity for them to enjoy!

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  132. Tracy says

    August 16, 2013 at 11:51 am

    Veggie scraps.

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  133. Megan says

    August 16, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    Fruit scraps

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  134. Sally says

    August 16, 2013 at 6:18 pm

    Dust bunnies! Particularly good when you have wooden floors. They seem to be everywhere!

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  135. Trish says

    August 16, 2013 at 9:45 pm

    Fantastic product! Veggie peelings make great compost!

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  136. Rose Kenworthy says

    August 16, 2013 at 9:46 pm

    Tea bags can be composted .

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  137. Becky says

    August 16, 2013 at 9:46 pm

    my vege and fruit scraps! How awesome is this prize LOVE it

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  138. Leanne says

    August 16, 2013 at 9:47 pm

    All the scraps from the vegetables from our vegie garden go into the compost bin to go back into the earth 🙂

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  139. Fiona S says

    August 16, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    Hair from hairbrushes, bamboo toothbrushes. Fruit and veg scraps, some paper……. So much can be composted!

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  140. Catherine says

    August 16, 2013 at 9:53 pm

    Fruit & Veg scraps!! Preparing, cutting, peeling, coring and slicing fruit and vegetables for 4 kids lunchboxes and 1 for my husband every morning makes a mountain of scraps perfect for composting!!

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  141. Sarah says

    August 16, 2013 at 9:53 pm

    Off cut veggies – the ones that don’t quite make it into my stocks!

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  142. April Panagopoulos says

    August 16, 2013 at 9:56 pm

    All of the banana skins my kids eat and the ubundace of pulp from juicing 🙂

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  143. Theresa says

    August 16, 2013 at 10:00 pm

    vegie scraps and tea bags would be going in my compost bin!!!

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  144. Pam says

    August 16, 2013 at 10:01 pm

    wow so many entries = so many people looking out for the environment :-)I would love to win this package, would make taking out the waste so much easier from my 4th floor unit. ( no lift)i could tie up the vegie scrapes in the bag and sit it inside the recycling bin to carry down stairs without leaks and mess.

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  145. Anna D'Amelio says

    August 16, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    I’ve wanted to start composting for a while now but unfortunately have not gotten around to it yet. It would make me so happy to be able to compost all my fruit and veg scraps, tea bags, eggshells! So much less to go into the bin!!

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  146. Georgia says

    August 16, 2013 at 10:10 pm

    I would love to start composting but didn’t know where to start, this would be an amazing prize! I would definitely start composting egg shells among other things. We go through over 12 eggs a week and that’s just 2 of us…luckily we get fresh farm eggs from my MIL’s chooks!

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  147. Bec Bartlett says

    August 16, 2013 at 10:10 pm

    This would be perfect for me to put in the potato peelings and excess fruit and veg scraps that I don’t give to my chooks! And then hubby will be happy as he will then get a decent amount of compost for our vegie garden 🙂

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  148. Christina says

    August 16, 2013 at 10:13 pm

    Ground coffee beans, tea bags, egg shells, apple cores, banana peels, corn cobs, crumbs that you sweep from under the table and what used to be steamed veggies, now a mashed messy looking Picasso on your child’s plate 🙂

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  149. Amanda Gorton says

    August 16, 2013 at 10:23 pm

    This would definitely be an upgrade from my recycled ice-cream container! I rely on a kitchen scrap bucket for potato peelings which are an excellent food for healthy compost!

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  150. Sandi says

    August 16, 2013 at 11:14 pm

    It would give me great pleasure to compost my shredded bills and juicing pulp ( that isn’t used for worm food or cookie baking) in one of these compost-a-paks!
    Great concept!

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  151. Angela Verburg says

    August 16, 2013 at 11:17 pm

    Fruit!

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  152. Tania says

    August 17, 2013 at 6:11 am

    Great idea perfect for the vege scraps the chooks wont eat!!

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  153. Danielle says

    August 17, 2013 at 8:45 am

    I would compost the left over pulp from juicing

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  154. Erica. S says

    August 17, 2013 at 12:32 pm

    All the juicing pulp from our juicing each morning!

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  155. Casey says

    August 17, 2013 at 1:23 pm

    Our food scraps, egg shells and left over newspaper – great idea for kids to learn

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  156. Lynsey S says

    August 17, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    Tea bags can go in the compost! Which I think is great because I drink a lot of it! =)

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  157. Rebecca says

    August 17, 2013 at 3:51 pm

    Fruit,vegetable peelings and scraps. Would look better than the old ice cream container!

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  158. Emily says

    August 17, 2013 at 6:32 pm

    Egg shells.

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  159. Wendy S says

    August 18, 2013 at 3:48 pm

    Drier Lint (I wonder if you can add Belly button fluff? If you can add hair BBF should be fine too 🙂 )

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  160. Pri Ashraf says

    August 19, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    What can go in my compost bin? Well I can’t compost my housemates for not using the bin but I can certainly compost all my cooking/food prep scraps – ie veg and fruit peels, egg shells, and leftovers from the coffee machine to deter snails! Pick me, pick me! X

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