Mulch Madness!

In support of World Environment Day's CO2: Kick The Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy theme, for one day only Bundaberg Waste Management is offering as much mulch as you can legally carry, FREE!

On Saturday the 31st of May, the day before the Bundaberg World Environment Day Celebration, stop by the Bundaberg Waste Management facility on University Drive between 7:30am and 4pm with your ute, trailer or even semi-trailer - along with tarpaulins and ropes to secure the load - and take home all the mulch you need for your garden projects! For more information, call Bundaberg Waste Management on 4155 1697.

Why Mulch?
- It holds 90 percent of its own weight in water – adding organic matter to your soil turns it into a water-holding 'dam' that needs less watering!
- It protects the soil from the sun, wind, rain and evaporation and reduces leaching and topsoil loss!
- It acts as insulation to regulate the temperature of your soil, making for happier, healthier plants!
- It slows down weeds, which can choke your plants and rob them of nutrients and water!
- It protects roots near the soil surface from damage from cultivation!
- It encourages earthworms that aerate and drain the soil!
- It improves soil structure and prevents soil compaction!
- It encourages microbial growth which may stimulate plant growth!
- It provides a home for "good" bugs and can control plant diseases!

AND...
- If organic matter goes to landfill, it produces methane, which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon. Properly mulching and composting avoids methane production, does ALL the good things listed above AND draws carbon from the atmosphere and returns it to the soil!

SustainaBundy will be at MULCH MADNESS selling the 2008 SustainaBundy Directory and Guide, "got local?" stickers and talking mulch! See you there!