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Reliance Compost recently earned a gold Eco-Logic Award in the Recycling and Waste Management category, which recognises a policy, programme, or project that has demonstrably contributed to a greater public understanding and participation in waste reduction, re-use, and recycling. We chat to Reliance Compost founder and director, Eddie Redelinghuys about organic compost, growing green minds and ensuring a healthy world for future generations

SOIL QUALITY DETERMINES THE QUALITY OF YOUR PLANTS; THE VOLUME OF WATER NEEDED TO PRODUCE CROPS; AND ULTIMATELY – YOUR PRODUCTION COSTS. –

Through years of over-usage, soil becomes depleted of nutrients and can eventually be devoid of the fertile qualities needed to cultivate healthy plants. Overusing herbicides also results in poor soil condition and negative soil humus content. Adding quality, nutrient-rich organic matter back to the soil is the most important critical action needed to reactivate plant growth

The amount of urban waste being produced is growing faster than the rate of urbanisation. According to the World Bank by 2025 there will be 1.4 billion more people living in cities worldwide, with each person producing an average of 1.42kg of municipal solid waste per day.

Cape Town – Pitfalls of our consumerist society almost always lead back to waste and by-products of everyday things use and then discard

In the Western Cape, at least 37% of waste is organic material – this is waste from food, garden clippings, plant-based materials and degradable carbon, like paper and cardboard