REMONDIS Lake Macquarie ORRF // REMONDIS Australia

FOGO (food and garden organics) generated by Lake Macquarie City Council residents is delivered to Lake Mac Organics, and unloaded into our Receival Hall.

The Receival Hall is made up of a concrete slab with a large, roofed structure (much the same as a pergola).

The FOGO material then has contamination (plastic bags and other inorganic materials) removed via a manual picking process, with the organic materials then shredded using a slow speed shredder to ensure there is nothing larger than 250mm in size.

Once shredded, the organic material is loaded into an organics processing tunnel where the moisture and airflow are regulated to ensure all pathogens are destroyed.

After the organic material has spent a designated amount of time in the organics processing tunnel, the material is removed and placed on a maturation pad.

The maturation pad has a mobile aerated floor system (MAFS) that ensures the organic material is converted into an Australian Standard composted material.

The composted material is then transferred over to our storage pad area, where it is processed via star screen into a fine grade compost and mid-sized mulch material, ready for sale into various applications (home gardens, wineries, horticulture, mine rehabilitation, etc.).