Sydney-based global leader in reuse and sustainability, Reverse Garbage, is facilitating a national youth competition, Reconsidered, as the non-profit organisation continues to lead the way in rethinking and reusing discarded materials. “We all know there’s a serious waste crisis in…
Lou Steer of Close to Home interviews Kirsten Junor CEO of Reverse Garbage about their new premises, waste recycling and their new competition
Media release: 19 January 2022 ‘New’ is a dirty word at creative reuse centre, Reverse Garbage, but they’ve made an exception for their new location and new CEO. On Monday, 24 January 2022, Reverse Garbage will open its doors at…
Applications now closed – amazing response thank you! Are you a REcreator? Do you transform objects from discarded to coveted? Useless to useful? Ugly to beautiful? We are looking for REcreators who would like to run a stall at our…
Bush Music Club and Reverse Garbage have long been neighbours at Addison Road Community Centre. To honour this long association, The Bush Music Club would like to invite the community to create a commemorative work for Reverse Garbage in the…
As much as we all love Christmas, it is a very wasteful time of year. We generate up to 50 per cent more waste during the silly season including unwanted gifts, leftover food, single-use wrapping… the list goes on. One…
We are challenging OOSSH/vacation care and early childhood centres to choose to reuse this Christmas. To enter, your group must make a reuse Christmas tree for the classroom. Size does not matter, make it as big or as small as…
Media release After 46 years at the Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville Sydney’s oldest sustainability enterprise, Reverse Garbage, is moving. From early 2022, the much-loved community reuse hub will be located in a new, fit-for-purpose warehouse space at 30…
From March – December 2020, Reverse Garbage artist and educator Fiona Arnold ran a series of workshops with Burwood Council and Metro Assist to empower members of the community to build up their skills and create art. Participants and their…
More than 90% of the materials used to make Marrickville Metro Shopping Centre’s astounding summer decorations came from creative reuse centre, Reverse Garbage. Bottle tops, plastic cutlery, bra cups, polystyrene, fabric samples and hessian coffee sacks that were discarded by…
