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Compost Connect board member and BioPak CEO Gary Smith happened to be sitting at a local café in Bondi, New South Wales, in late 2017, when a drive-by organic recycling truck made him realise how simple it was to collect waste from cafés and restaurants and divert it from landfill to compost, and that he needed to change business waste disposal behaviour.
This encounter sparked Gary’s idea to not only provide waste collection services for cafés and restaurants but educate the broader public about composting.
“As a business we are committed to growing the local composting infrastructure. That is why we started a non-profit organisation Compost Connect,