Plastic Free July is coming
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Plastic Free July is an annual reminder and challenge to rethink your relationship with single use plastic. Get involved:
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Pledge to ditch the big five single use plastics: takeaway coffee cups, plastic straws, shopping bags, water bottles and plastic wrapped fruit and veg
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Make a pledge to try one new waste-free activity for the whole month! Make breakfast or cook a meal a week without using any ingredients wrapped in plastic, or make your own pledge
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Start collecting soft plastic recycling at home, in your workplace or school and take it to the REDcycle bin at Coles and Woolworths
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Keep the young people in your life engaged online and offline! Here are three great food reuse projects.
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Get creative and enter the Young Re-inventor of the Year competition at school or at home. Demonstrate an idea to cut food waste, snap a photo and go in the running to win! Entries close on 23 October
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Educate yourself with the new Farm to Fork app developed by Edith Cowan University. The app will game you through the waste and health implications of growing, transporting and manufacturing food. Download the app from the App Store
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This Thursday, join our Young Re-inventor of the Year webinar, where young people will learn an activity to cut food waste
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Modern Cloth Nappy Subsidy
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If you’re keen to try modern cloth nappies but don’t want to pay big bucks Switch your thinking’s cloth nappy trial is for you. You’ll receive a trial pack of different modern cloth nappies for four weeks, to find what fits your baby and your lifestyle before you invest.
Switch your thinking is providing a 50% discount so the trial only costs $60. The trial is open to residents of the City of Armadale, City of Gosnells and Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale.
To get more information or participate in the trial contact kam@thenappyguru.com.au or call 0427 917 655.
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Learn with us, talk with us
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Join Switch your thinking this month to re-invent, talk rubbish and declutter as part of our free sustainability webinar series. For a full list of our webinars, as well as those run by our member councils, see below.
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Young Re-inventor of the Year webinar
Thursday 4 June
4:30PM - 5:00PM
Online
Cost: Free
Young people will put their creativity to the test in this workshop and demonstration that challenges the idea of food waste. You'll also learn how to enter the Young Re-inventor of the Year competition and go in the running to share $2000 of prizes.
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Reducing Waste in Early Years
Monday 15 June
5:45PM - 8:00PM
Online
Cost: Free for early years professionals in the City of Canning and City of Kwinana
Learn about waste and the problems it can cause with a special focus on waste generated in early years settings.
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Biodiversity: Co-existing with nature, yes we can!
Thursday 18 June
5:45PM - 9:00PM
Online - limited places
Cost: Free
Our wildlife is precious. Join the Forever Project to learn how you can contribute to the biodiversity of your suburb by creating habitat and food sources for fauna. Proudly supported by the City of South Perth.
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Living Sustainably in the Suburbs
Thursday 25 June
5:45PM - 9:00PM
Online - limited places
Cost: Free
A must for all those who want to develop their household resilience! Learn how to have healthy bees, the joy of food preserving and seed saving. On the night you’ll even make your own toothpaste, deodorant and hand cleaner. Presented by the Forever Project and proudly supported by the City of South Perth.
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Talking Rubbish
Tuesday 16 June
12:30PM - 1:00PM
Online
Cost: Free
Why is that waste? What bin does it go in? Why can’t it be recycled? Join Switch your thinking to find out how waste works! We’ll also help find ways to recycle tricky items and find alternatives, setting you up for Plastic Free July.
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Growing Your Own Food - the basics
Saturday 13 June
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Online
Cost: $20
Are you keen to try growing veggies in your garden? Then come and share with Shani Graham from Ecoburbia who has been eating from her garden for more than 15 years. This workshop is subsidised by the City of Canning so the cost to participants is only $20.
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Decluttering
Friday 26 June
11:30AM—12:15PM
Online
Cost: Free
Investigate strategies to get your home organised with less 'stuff' and practical tips to keep it this way. This workshop will remind you how to re-use, re-purpose, upcycle, recycle or throw out stuff you don't need.
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