Did you realise that when food scraps are sent to landfill, they decompose and produce methane, a greenhouse gas with more than 20 times the global warming capacity of carbon dioxide? Food scraps in landfill also produce an organic leachate which is polluting to groundwater. What will participants learn and what skills will be gained? […]
As we edge towards the silly season, join Reverse Garbage for two merry maker workshops where you’ll get to play, explore and create using a wide assortment of reuse materials. Halloween Decoration Making Workshop Let’s get spooky, scary, and sustainable with homemade Halloween decorations. From spiders to crawl across your wall to ghosts floating in […]
Peninsula Toy Recyclers bring joy to children across Australia and around the world by giving a new lease of life to unused toys. Peninsula Toy Repairs is on the move, relocating from Ingleside to The HUB at Kimbriki and getting prepared for the Toy Drop-off Day at Open Day at The HUB on Saturday 4th […]
It’s wonderful to hear about the collaboration between Willy Lang (a disability support person), his clients from the Cerebral Palsy Alliance (CPA), and the Eco House & Garden team to create a more accessible and vibrant garden space for CPA’s ‘Project Green’ in Allambie Heights. Willy initiated the project by bringing clients to the Eco […]
The huge difference a bike can make! In remote communities, a bicycle is not only a means of transport to places of employment and education, but also provide many with access to remote sources of food, water, medicine and shelter. One bicycle can support social rehabilitation and economic change. It is Bikes4Life’s mission to collect, […]
Northern Beaches Council are encouraging residents to bring their rigid pieces of 100% clean, white and dry expanded polystyrene (EPS) used for packaging of appliances and electronics to The Hub, Kimbriki for recycling on our collection day for free. Domestic quantities only (equivalent to volume of your green vegetation bin, 240L) The polystyrene must not […]
KIMBRIKI ECO HOUSE & GARDEN – WASTE & SUSTAINABILITY IN SCHOOLS PD DAY School teachers from near and far recently gathered at the Waste and Sustainability in Schools event, for the common goal ‘to make our schools more sustainable and teach our students the importance of environmental stewardship’. The various workshops and breakout sessions were […]
‘The Spirit of Inclusion’ Kimbriki warmly welcomed the hardworking Bushlink team earlier this year and once again during the spring season. They assisted with mulching duties around the administration building, and the entire team arrived with smiles and overflowing enthusiasm. Bushlink is committed to providing meaningful employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities through a network […]
Open Day @ The HUB A4 flyer Engaging the community, upcycling materials, reducing plastic use & fostering sustainable behaviour Boomerang Bags is a global, grassroots movement connecting and empowering local communities to tackle plastic pollution at its source. It’s a bag-share initiative supplying free reusable shopping bags for the community to borrow when they forget […]
Welcome to the Kimbriki Newsletter – Winter 2023, our quarterly community Newsletter providing updates on the Kimbriki site, Eco House & Garden events, environmental initiatives, and a range of waste and recycling news. The Clean Water Diversion System infrastructure project is progressing well with a significant percentage of work completed. This project aims to safeguard […]