The Compost Kitchen – Convenient Composting!

Organic waste is the most problematic waste stream because it produces methane in the landfill, and can pollute groundwater when dumped in the landfill. We have a big dream to divert all South Africa’s organic waste from the landfill so that it can be properly composted, and thereby become a valuable soil conditioner. During this journey, we aim to demonstrate a more fuel-efficient way of collecting waste, while educating that waste has value, so that other entrepreneurs can be inspired.

But Himkaar Singh – a Dainfern resident – came up with an incredible environmental initiative that has just been selected as one of the “Top 300 Best Practices on Sustainability in the world”!

The Compost Kitchen collects your organic kitchen waste and returns it to you once their little hungry earthworms have transformed it into ‘vermicompost’ – a premium compost made by earthworms, which is the way nature intended and will provide biology in addition to nutrients.

But this is a new model of recycling – where you get something back!

“Every month, you will get 2kg of high-quality vermicompost back, which you can use in your vegetable garden or pot plants to grow food again. The vermicompost has all the nutrients a plant could possibly need, so all you need to do is add water and seeds and it will give you homegrown food. Imagine when we scale and 1000s of homes are receiving the basic ingredient for growing organic food, how the food system will change! This is our way of tackling food security in South Africa while solving the waste problem.” – Himkaar Singh.