Cane toads will be turned into compost for sugar cane farmers by a Queensland waste management company.
The company is asking Cairns residents to capture the pests and bring them to its 'toad day out' this weekend.
Plant manager Haydn Slattery says the company is hoping to collect about 100 kilograms of toads, which will be humanely killed in preparation to be used as the raw materials for compost.
"Over a three-day period we'll take the material into the plant, it'll break down microbially into compost, and in four weeks time after that, it'll end up in cane farms," he said.
"Finally after 80-odd years of cane toads being around after being introduced as something that's going to be of use to cane farmers, 80 years down the track they're being turned into compost and finally becoming a benefit to our farmers."
Cane toads were introduced into north Queensland in 1935 to control pest beetles, and quickly spread along vast tracts of Queensland coastline.
The cane toads did little to control the beetles, and have become a widespread pest themselves in Queensland, northern New South Wales the Northern Territory and small parts of Western Australia.
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