Waste Wise Living Workshops

Make a difference to our environment

Council offers residents of the Shire a number of FREE Waste Wise Living workshops, aiming to encourage more environmentally friendly practices to be carried out at home. Over 50 percent of what residents send to landfill from their red lid garbage waste bins is organic matter (fruit and vegetable scraps). This can take years to break down in landfill condition, not to mention the harmful gases which need to be carefully extracted for years to come. Learn how to reuse this valuable resource and how it will benefit you!

As if our workshops are not popular enough - we are throwing in a FREE Compost Bin OR Worm Farm (the choice is yours!) for participants of our workshops to pick up from one of two Bunnings Warehouse stores. Recycling Tours are not included in this offer.

Please note: Bookings into workshops will only be accepted 3 weeks prior to the workshop date. Available for Shire residents only.

Recycling Tour

Out of sight, out of mind? If you have ever wondered what happens to the material from your bins once it has been collected and taken away from your kerbside? Then come along and visit the recycling and waste management facilities on a guided tour.

Composting & Worm Farming

This hands-on, fun workshop gives you the opportunity to learn how easy it can be to reuse your food scraps creating nutrient rich fertiliser to improve soil conditions and decrease the amount you send to landfill.

Organic Gardening

This fun, informative and hands-on practical workshop teaches you how to create a healthy, abundant ecosystem by helping you understand nature and replicating it in your garden at home. You will also learn how to make rich healthy soil, manage pests organically, build a no-dig garden and prepare and plant a delicious edible garden.

DIY Compost Accelerator

Have you mastered composting and want to push on further abd learn more? Come along to this interactive workshop and learn to make your own accelerator that ferments organic matter. This also can be used in an airtight kitchen top container to break down your organic matter - perfect for unit dwellers. These hour and a half courses will begin in 2013 running on weekday evenings. Dates will be available from January 2013.

For more information or to find out when workshops and tours are running, phone Waste Services on 9710 5744.