Waste Is My Resource

It is awesome news that the soft plastic recycling is so successful in the Eastern States, using all the waste left over from the Red Cycle collapse and tripling the production of pre 2022. I so hope it comes to WA soon.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-19/soft-plastics-recycling-redcycle-capacity-consumer-demand/106750142?shem=dsdf,sharefoc,agadiscoversdl,,sh/x/discover/m1/4&fbclid=IwVERTSASh5ZtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6JXZNWuY3ZZLO3GfYJ-rJHoZg-3rrxblwZoNVwq82yRljnvvrqRJWoFK5h1Q_aem_zO8rChk6B4_97_r6yhOL-g

More soft plastics needed as Australia's recycling capacity booms Australia's soft plastics recycling industry is operating at nearly triple the capacity it was at now-collapsed national recycler REDcycle's peak, but consumers are yet to be convinced.

Please support the volunteers sharing their repair skills

♻️🔧 FINAL REPAIR CAFÉ AT SJCRC 🔧♻️

After so many incredible mornings of fixing, learning, and giving items a second life… our Repair Café is coming to its final session. 💚

Got something broken you can’t quite bring yourself to throw away? This is your last chance to bring it in and see if our amazing volunteer repairers can help breathe new life into it!

🗓 Saturday 27th June 2026
⏰ 9:00am – 11:00am
📍 Serpentine Jarrahdale Community Resource Centre (SJCRC)
Paterson Street, Mundijong WA

Our skilled volunteers will be on hand to help with a range of everyday items and treasured belongings — all while sharing skills, reducing waste, and supporting a more sustainable community. 🌏

🔧 We may be able to help with:
🧸 Toys with minor repairs
💍 Jewellery repairs – fixing clasps, chains & small items
☕ Household items – crockery, mugs & more
🧵 Clothing & textiles – seams, buttons, small fixes
🪴 Garden items & tools – light repairs
🚲 Bikes – basic adjustments
💻 Small tech troubleshooting

While you’re here, why not make a morning of it? ☕
Enjoy a coffee or bite to eat at the SJCRC Café and wander through the SJ Farmers Market while you wait.

🔗 More info: https://www.sjcommunityresourcecentre.org.au/updates/repair-and-teach-cafe-monthly/

Bring your broken bits, your curiosity, and your community spirit, let’s finish on a high and celebrate everything we’ve fixed together 💛
This initiative is proudly supported through grant funding from the Waste Authority of Western Australia and WasteSorted WA

Happy to be helping City of Bayswater and Environment House / Perth Ecoshop & Sustainability Services encourage people to Ditch Plastic by showing them how to make beeswax wraps.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BUFc2rruZ/

Are you ready to break up with plastic? 💔♻️

Come along to a series of workshops presented in partnership with Environment House / Perth Ecoshop & Sustainability Services to celebrate Plastic Free July and learn how to reduce your plastic waste.

Workshops include:
🧒 Kids' Eco Adventure Morning (Ages 6 – 12)
🏡 Enviro House Recycling Station Tour and Q&A
🐝 Make Your Own Beeswax Wraps and Lip Balm
🥕 Grow a Thriving Veggie Garden
🏫 Hillcrest Primary School Plastic Free Tour for Teachers

Click the link in the first comment below to read more 👇

Pictured: Filomena Piffaretti - Mayor City of Bayswater with Make Your Own Beeswax Wrap workshop facilitator Robyn Brown from Waste Is My Resource.

An interesting study about the value of adding waste cooking oil to your compost bin. I have always done it, a cup at a time.
https://www.compostmagazine.com/compost-hack-cooking-oil/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAScI4JjbGNrBJwjDGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHpeA9s5Bx9u1zQkOJHtyDAYq6XGh6At7WRrzkuKmtt13LPHOO_sx2zWaJMRO_aem_lI9qhN20aKOMEiQLhUEE3A

The Cooking Oil Composting Hack - Compost Magazine A fascinating study tells us that adding cooking oil to compost can increase heat levels, help maintain nutrients and reduce emissions.

If you live in Perth this new free App will be a godsend finding organic food. Lets support the lady who created it.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1EQJxEJr1U/

Yes, incaberry has finally launched! 🎉

You can download the very first version for free today on android and iphone.
https://incaberry.app/

We would love your support to share it with your friends and family 🩷

With Love,

Brehoni & the Incaberry Team 🌱

Out sprouting off about composting again. I never get tired of this subject!

An awesome Waste Reduction initiative created by a local government funded organisation, founded by the Shires of Serpentine Jarrahdale,City of Armadale and City of Gosnells.
https://switchyourthinking.com/ways-to-switch/waste/?fbclid=IwdGRjcASGUvZjbGNrBIZSumV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnfON36tDSHBQfC8_70vEhMEqXICGaysbI0z_d0rvvXtOgaW5RHjdKw2auVY_aem_VjC0KdWsLWDHs2FF07Y6sg

Waste - Switch Your Thinking Waste Avoiding being wasteful can have great social benefits, help protect the environment and stop valuable land from being turned into landfill. NEW WASTE (LESS) GUIDES! Our new waste guides […]

I tick large numbers of boxes at my place to help encourage bio diversity to my place. What about you? I love the aim "to Enhance Mess". I have been doing that most of my life!!!

BECOME A BACKYARDS FOR BIODIVERSITY MEMBER To Have a Backyard for Biodiversity you should do, or be working towards, the following:

For my friends in the Rockingham area, I have a free Home Composting workshop next Thursday 4 June

Ways to Compost at Home | Rockingham Libraries Learn what composting system will work best for your household with facilitator Robyn Brown. Composting is a great way to turn food scraps and garden waste into a rich fertiliser for your plants....