Hundreds of Victorian home gardeners angry and out of pocket after using toxic compost from major recycler Suez

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 sold to backyard gardeners planting their summer veggie crops. Clare — who's been a gardener for 40 years in central Victoria — was one of the first to raise the alarm in September after buying a load of soil from a local garden centre. Clare's garden centre in central Victoria has written to its customers saying soil samples have come back clear. "We haven't been able to identify the smoking gun yet — but there's been lots of sound of gunfire," he said.