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Hundreds of Victorian home gardeners angry and out of pocket after using toxic compost from major recycler Suez – ABC News
A batch of commercial compost leaves a Suez recycling facility in Melbourne bound for Victorian garden centres. Crops begin to die within weeks.
Some time in October last year, a batch of commercial compost left a Suez recycling facility in Melbourne, bound for garden centres in central Victoria and Melbourne.
Key points:
- More than 200 Victorian gardeners noticed they lost vegetable crops after composting
- They claim commercial compost from a Suez recycling facility is the culprit
- The Environment Protection Authority has investigated and passed the matter onto Consumer Affairs Victoria
Within days, it had been combined into soil mixes, and…
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