Posts Tagged ‘Reduce, Reuse & Recycle’
How a Plastic Bag Ban inspired this Team Building Event
The City of Joondalup’s Staff Development Day featured a bonanza of workshops, inspired by the imminent Plastic Bag Ban and how we can ditch single use plastic.
Read MoreWaste Wise Lunchboxes are looking good with Wax Wraps
Waste Wise Wednesdays are popping up all over WA Primary Schools. Even school canteens are getting onboard with waste free lunches!
Read MorePerth Sustainability Workshops
For more information, contact the Green Skills Perth Office 9360 6667 or abrion@greenskills.org.au
Read MoreCreate No Waste
The South Coast Create No Waste program ran for 12 months on the South Coast of WA and included including 5 market days, 15 workshops and 3 tours, reaching over 4200 participants.
Read MoreHow to DIY Beeswax Wraps – The Ironing Method
Thank you Piney Lakes Environmental Education Centre for hosting our DIY Beeswax Wraps Workshop last week – a great start to 2018 for this fun and friendly group!
Read MoreHow to use Terracycle in Albany
Updated: October 2019 Green Skills Albany has been participating in the TerraCycle Australia program since early 2017.
Read MoreMaking Beeswax Wraps for a Sustainable Christmas
Ready to ditch Plastic Cling Wrap? Introducing: Beeswax Wraps. The natural, reusable, smells-so-good alternative.
Read MoreSew Cool! Making a Difference: Workshops and Markets
It was a bright and colourful scene at the Sew Cool! sewing workshops.
Read MoreAlbany Community Development Enterprise Centre nearing completion!
Green Skills Albany has been busy in 2017 extending their office building to create a large community space that will be available for hire by community groups and individuals to run workshops, life skills classes and community events.
Read MoreToilet Paper for Christmas
The storeroom at Green Skills Albany is stacked up with the limited 2017 Christmas edition Who Gives A Crap toilet paper!
Read MoreRecycle, Compost or Landfill? Green Skills Perth goes straight to the source.
Green Skills Perth staff Annabelle Newbury and Aline Brion toured the bilges of local waste facilities, to uncover the recycled, the composted and the landfilled.
Read MoreUpcycled Fashion: look beyond the obvious
It was so much fun getting a collection of our upcycled garments out into the big bright world today.
Read MoreOctober Upcycling Pallets Workshop
On behalf of Green Skills, Cassie and Corbin of the Pallet Project presented another fabulous Upcycling Pallets Workshop last Saturday as part of the City of Cockburn Sustainable Events Program. It was held under the trees at the Cockburn Wetland Education Centre for an enthusiastic group of participants with ages ranging from Primary School to…
Read MoreKatanning EcoFair
Green Skills is supporting Katanning Landcare at Katanning EcoFair Saturday 8am-2pm on September 16th!
Read MoreFrom Land Fill to Funky Fashion
The sheer volume of second hand clothing thrown away is fast becoming a waste management crisis across the western world.
Read MorePlastic Free Nappies for Plastic Free July
Green Skills’ Perth office celebrates Plastic Free July with a “Nappies for Newborns” workshop for the City of Cockburn’s youngest residents.
Read MoreUpcycling pallets for home and garden
Pallet Workshops for local councils, communities and organisations.
Read More“Nappies for newborns and beyond” – Cloth Nappy Workshops
Every day, thousands of nappies arrive at the recycling facilities around Perth after being placed into the incorrect kerbside bin.
Read MoreDenmark Tip Shop
The Denmark Tip Shop and Recycling Centre was established by Green Skills in 2001, at the Denmark Waste Transfer Station with the approval of the Shire of Denmark.
Read MoreCreate No Waste
Green Skills Albany are successfully showcasing creative ways to prevent waste going to landfill through a program of Create No Waste Festivals.
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