Volunteers met with NBC Mayor Sue Heins during her visit to The Hub Open Day 2023 to discuss the work being done by us and the other groups
Boomerang Bags is a bag-share initiative supplying free reusable shopping bags for the community to borrow when they forget their own. Engaging the community, upcycling materials, reducing plastic use and fostering sustainable behaviour!
Boomerang Bags are made from unwanted fabrics, helping to reduce the 200,000 tonnes of textile landfill accumulated by Australia every year.
The Kimbriki Boomerang Bags group is coordinated by Tanya and Marina, Northern Beaches residents who combine their love of sewing and mending with their passion for the environment. Whilst shopping bags are the main focus, they make and supply reusable items for other community groups, including jewellery pouches for chemotherapy patients and project bags for the crochet groups at a local primary school.
Monthly working bees are held at The Hub and everyone is invited to visit. The tasks are varied and include:
- Cutting material
- Screen printing
- Ironing
- Sorting fabric
- Sewing
- Bring your own creative passion and share your skills
- Enjoying a cuppa with like-minded friends
If you can’t make our monthly working bees, we have ready-to-sew kits which can be worked on at home or you can help us in other ways:
- Collect textile donations
- Sewing machine maintenance
- Social media engagement
- Help out at markets and festivals
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