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

On Saturday the 31st of May and Sunday the 1st of June, stop by any waste management facility in the Bundaberg Regional Council Area for your free mulch. They are: University Drive Landfill, Qunaba Landfill (Potters Rd Bargara), Meadowvale Landfill, Avondale landfill, South Kolan Transfer Station, Tirroan Landfill (Gin Gin), Childers Landfill, Woodgate Transfer Station, Buxton Transfer Station, Booyal Transfer Station and Cordalba Transfer Station.

Mulch will be loaded by machine at University Drive, Qunaba, Meadowvale and Childers. The other facilities will be self load only! Free self load mulch will also be available at the World Environment Day Celebration on Sunday June 1 at the PCYC. Come 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 the University Drive facility for MULCH MADNESS on Saturday the 31st of May selling the 2008 SustainaBundy Directory and Guide, "got local?" stickers and talking mulch! See you there!