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 way to reduce your waste is to reuse it creatively and turn it into unique … Continue reading Not so rubbish decorations
We are challenging OOSH/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 you want. The key criteria is that everything must be made out of reuse resources, … Continue reading Win a class in/excursion this Christmas
We were super excited to invite Jo Haylen, Member for Summer Hill to cut our reuse ribbon today to the cheers of donors, team members, board members, councillors, and community. The $45,000 Community Building Partnership grant we were awarded in 2021 made this space much more achievable for us, along with generous donations from community members, … Continue reading Our education spaces are open…and available for hire
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 its new, fit-for-purpose warehouse at 30 Carrington Rd Marrickville, after 46 years in its war-time … Continue reading Opening at a new location with a new CEO
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 form of a poem, ballad, or song. Brief: To write a poem, ballad, or song … Continue reading Write us a bush style poem, tune or song
Do you know our next CEO? It’s probably no surprise in a not for profit like ours that our CEO wears many hats. Have a look at the role description here. If it’s not for you, maybe you know someone who would love the opportunity? https://www.ethicaljobs.com.au/members/ReverseGarbageMarrickville/chief-executive-officer-1 Applications close: 5:00 PM, 26th Nov 2021
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 carers worked together to learn and build using reuse materials that they can find at … Continue reading Reverse Garbage x Metro Assist
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 their first owner and would go straight to landfill if it weren’t for Reverse Garbage, … Continue reading Sustainable shopping centre installations for Summer
Mayor Darcy Byrne has announced that Inner West Council will convert their Summer Hill depot into a reuse centre as part of their commitment to become a national leader in sustainability. We’ve been invited to be a part of this initiative, along with The Bower and other like-minded organisations, when our lease here at Addison … Continue reading Our future is bright
Never underestimate the power of a Facebook comment. When Shari Meyer commented on our Facebook post about extraordinary dresses made from hospital Kimguard she probably wasn’t expecting to lead to finding a reuse for the kilos of plastic rescued at her workplace. Shari is part of the Green Team at St George Private Hospital where … Continue reading Bringing new meaning to ‘plastic surgery’
