Earth Garden

The Carters don’t cart bins…

THE CARTERS look like an average Aussie family. Mum, dad, three kids, modest house in the suburbs. They have chooks and a vegie garden. They like to go bushwalking, they have jobs, they buy groceries, pay bills, walk the dog.

And yet the Carters aren’t your average Aussie family in one particular respect – something you would likely not notice until bin night. The Carters don’t put the bins out. Since 2015 this Hobart family have been living virtually waste-free. For the past two and a half years their

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