coolseats restore Earth
Why coolseats?
Fighting food waste while greening our streets and cooling local climates
Good for Earth
coolseats leave Earth in a better place. With your coolseats you turn food waste into compost, cool your street, increase vegetation and keep local money in your local community.
Good for community
coolseats stimulate conversations and grow community by growing fresh food, increasing local business and creating local jobs.
Good for you
coolseats grow healthy food, provide you with a comfortable cool place to sit on, give you fresh food & flowers to harvest, or a seat to have a think on.
What makes a coolseat special?
Raised Garden Bed
You can grow plants in your coolseat providing fresh produce for you and your community.
Seat
You can sit down and relax on the coolseat.
Free Nutrients Provider
Decomposition of food waste in the coolseat acts as a free source of nutrients for your plants in the garden bed.
Ends Food Waste
Placing food scraps in the coolseat diverts them from entering landfills and contributing to climate change.
Compost Maker
After just a few weeks a coolseat produces compost for you to add to your gardens, as one of the best fertilizers around.
Cuts Down Garden Watering
Watering of the coolseats is cut down by 80% due to wicking cells.
New coolseat at Pocket City Farms
How to use a coolseat
Coolseats options
Did you know?
If food waste was a country, then it would be third biggest source of CO2 emissions in the world.
Throwing away 3 kg of edible food results in greenhouse gases equivalent to 23 kg of carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere.
coolseats are part of the solution.
Food waste song - coolseats
by BennyTheJukeBox
What is the impact of ‘Chippendale Road Gardens’ coolseats?
57 kg/day food waste converted
110 kg/day carbon dioxide air pollution avoided
The coolseats process
Step 1:
Feed waste to worms
Where to with the coffee grounds and table waste? Off into the worm farm that is part of the coolseat.
Step 2:
Mix compost
Mixing up the green & paper waste, while adding some water, will keep the worms in the coolseat happy.
Step 3:
Grow plants
After 3-4 weeks, use the worm compost to grow some beautiful flowers, vegies or herbs. coolseats are cool indeed!
Step 4:
Sit & smell the flowers
Jeremy & Thomas love sitting on the coolseat while waiting for their take-away from Church Block Cafe.