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Tasty time in Thomastown The best of Thomastown’s food industry will be on display at the Taste of Thomastown Food Festival next month. Organised by Thomastown Neighbourhood House, the festival will celebrate Thomastown’s award-winning producers. Thomastown Neighbourhood House manager Justine Sless said the festival aimed to “put a good spin on a suburb that doesn’t have a great reputation”. “It’s not a well-known fact there are so many world-class producers in the area,” she said. “If it is in your deli basket, it was probably made in Thomastown. “We are the gateway to the City of Whittlesea geographically. We want to promote pride in Thomastown.” Festival producers such as Bertocchi, That’s Amore Cheese and Olinana Foods will be offering free tastings and demonstrations throughout the day, while the Bubup Wilam Aboriginal Child and Family Centre will make lemon myrtle biscuits and damper. “I would love to see this festival grow and put the City of Whittlesea and Thomo on the map,” Ms Sless said. The festival will be on Saturday, September 7, from 10am-2pm at 52 Main Street. Details: thn.org.au Laura Michell
Tina Karam from Oliana, Giorgio Linguanti from That’s Amore and Bertocchi’s Angela Giarratana. (Marco De Luca)
New trial food for thought A three-month food waste recycling trial will be held in Whittlesea in an attempt to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. From October, a number of households that participate in the council’s garden waste bin program will be provided with caddies and compostable caddy bin liners, allowing them to recycle their food waste. The organic waste will be collected with garden waste and processed by SUEZ’s green waste processing facility in Cooper Street,
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- Emilia Lisa Sterjova
where Whittlesea’s garden waste is currently taken. A report to the council’s August 6 meeting stated that an audit of garbage bins collected by the council found that more than 40 per cent of the weight of the waste material collected was food or garden waste.
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The report stated that recycling organic waste would reduce Whittlesea’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions by 41,529 tonnes a year – the equivalent of 9000 cars. Cr Emilia Lisa Sterjova said the trial was a great opportunity for Whittlesea. “Anyone who has watched the news will have seen that councils are sending their recycling waste to landfill and we have no idea what to do,” she said. “Waste going to landfill is destroying our environment. “We are looking at what else we can do. If we can eliminate any possibility of these [food]
scraps going to landfill, then why wouldn’t we?”. Cr Sam Alessi said a number of councils were already running food waste recycling programs and were achieving “fantastic results”. If the trial is successful, the council will introduce the service from February or March to all residents who participate in the garden waste bin program. Council officers estimate that a Whittlesea-wide food waste program will increase the cost of garden waste bins from $77 a year to $97.
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By Laura Michell