Recycling and waste reduction blog


Children celebrating while wearing rubbish
  • Recycling
  • Waste reduction
  • Reuse
  • Second hand
  • Community event

Meet the waste champions who are owning it

Every wondered how Western Australia will make significant inroads in its collective efforts to reduce waste?

Man holding a container of compostable food scraps
  • Household
  • Waste reduction
  • Composting

Learn how to bokashi like a pro!

If you have space on a workbench, under the sink or in a cupboard - about the size of a mixer - then you have room to bokashi and cut your food waste by a lot!

Fruit and vegetable
  • Plastic-alternatives
  • Waste reduction

Opt For Nude Food

Excessive packaging on food is not only unnecessary, it’s environmentally flawed. Join the nude food movement with these easy change-ups.

revive old jeans
  • Waste reduction
  • Reuse
  • Second hand

How to revive an old pair of jeans

Never part with a favourite pair of jeans prematurely again with this great hack to help bring faded items back to life.

close up of hands holding soil and earthworms
  • Household
  • Composting

How to build your own worm farm

Building your own low-cost, zero waste worm farm is as easy as 1-2-3!

Customer at the checkout of a bulkfood store
  • Household
  • Waste reduction

How to shop at a bulk food store

Does the idea of entering a bulk food store seem intimidating? Read more for our tips and tricks on becoming a seasoned bulk food store shopper!

man in chemical suit with hand up to say stop
  • Household
  • Recycling

Hazardous waste - the things you just can't bin

Batteries, paint, aerosol cans, gas cylinders and e-waste – these are everyday materials found in practically every home, but they can’t be disposed of by simply throwing them in your rubbish or recycling bins. Find out how to correctly bid adieu to your hazardous household waste.

line up of various beverage containers
  • Recycling
  • Waste reduction

How WA's container deposit scheme will work

Western Australia’s new container deposit scheme, Containers for Change, launches in June 2020. Here’s what you need to know for now.

Lady selling a used kids bike
  • Household
  • Waste reduction
  • Second hand

Give stuff away

Buy Nothing. Give Freely. Share Creatively. This is the ethos behind a fast-growing movement empowering individuals and communities to form their own gift economies (where no money changes hands) and reducing waste at the same time.