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Sustainable Living Events
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Edible native gardens
Thursday 28th February 2019, 10am - 12pm
Maidstone Community Centre, 21 Yardley Street, Maidstone
Join Maidstone Community Centre and Ella Boyen from Compost Community to learn about edible native plants, including many that are local to Melbourne. Be it berries, leaves, roots or seasons and spices, Australia's native plants offer a cornucopia of ingredients for a native kitchen garden. Learn tips on how to use different plants as foods and how to grow them at home. Enjoy a native wildlife garden that is productive as well!
FREE EVENT. Bookings available here
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DIY natural cleaning products to
detox your home
Wednesday 27th March, 630 - 8.30pm
Yarraville Community Centre, 59 Francis St, Yarraville
Join Jason from Innerview in this hands on workshop and discover how to make your own safe, effective and natural solutions using therapeutic essential oils and chemical free products. During the workshop, you will learn how to make and take home a disinfectant spray and facial cleanser, and find out how to make your own toothpaste at home as well.
FREE EVENT. Bookings available from March 1st, 2019
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CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY
Join the litter clean up movement and get involved with Clean Up Australia Day this Sunday! You can create a clean up event, join a clean up event near you, support one of the clean up campaigns, and much more.
Jump online to find out everything you need to organise and run a safe, easy and fun Community Clean Up Event, or look up a great local event near you.
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One million trees planted in Melbourne's west!
An additional one million trees have now been planted in Melbourne's western suburbs, with the wrap up of Greening the West's One Million Trees project. A wonderful effort and huge congratulations to all of the community groups, councils, and other organisations from across the west who took part in the project!
You can watch a short video celebrating this achievement.
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Recycling services continue
Council can confirm that recycling services remain unchanged, and that recycling will continue to be separated, recycled and diverted from landfill.
Council engage VISY Recycling as its recyclable material processing service provider. VISY services remain unchanged, and all the material collected from recycling bins will continue to be sorted for recycling. [Read on]
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Free Environmental
Programs for Schools
Calling all local teachers, students and schools!
Book a free waste and environmental visit for your school, with 8 different activities to choose from.
From student-led waste audits and food waste programs to exploring the world of plastic.
Book a free session.
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Council's free recycling app
Never miss bin night again with the Maribyrnong Bins and Recycling App, an A-Z guide to waste and recycling!
Set alerts for bin night, book a hard waste service, order a green waste bin, find out about local events, and discover Council’s latest recycling services. The App is available and free to download for iPhone and Android.
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LOCAL ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING POINTS
Local residents and electric vehicle enthusiasts can now find two EV charging points available at AAKonsult, 2/209 Hyde St and Paint Stop, at 15 Geelong St West Footscray.
For AAKonsult, encouraging the adoption of Electric Vehicles (EV) is an initiative close to their heart. Electric vehicles improve the health of all citizens, will lessen the impact on climate change and reduces noise pollution.
With all these benefits in mind, AAKonsult have made a charge point available to the general public free of charge (fair use policy applies). For the technically minded, this is a 3 phase, 16amp type 2 charge point that adds up to 55km of range per hour. AAKonsult are also running a 7.2kw Solar system to provide clean energy for charging and soon this will be supported with a Tesla Powerwall battery.
AAKonsult are an 8-minute walk to the Yarraville village, so owners can grab a coffee, lunch or watch a movie whilst charging.
Visit My Electric Car for more information.
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Rescue your Recycling:
Student film competition
This March, Council will launch the Rescue Your Recycling short film festival. The competition will encourage local students to get creative as they step beyond the classroom and explore how to rescue recycling from common mistakes.
To find out more about the competition rules and entry details, sign up to our mailing list.
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Detox your home
Saturday 23rd March 2019, 9am – 3 pm
Keilor Park.
Registration is required for this collection.
The site address will be provided upon registration.
Detox your Home is a safe, free and easy-to-use service to dispose of common household chemicals without harming your health or environment. Your local collection point is Keilor Park.
For more information, visit Sustainability Victoria – Detox your home or call 1300 363 744.
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Melbourne Repair Café (Inner West)
Yarraville Community Centre, 59 Francis Street, Yarraville
Join the Melbourne Repair Cafe's monthly repair session in Yarraville on the second Sunday of every month. The Repair Café is all about connecting over a cuppa, sharing skills and learning to DIY your own repairs (for free!). Volunteers are keen and capable to help rescue items which would otherwise be thrown away. Our fixers have a variety of skills to help you with small home appliances, toys, tools, or mending clothes, bags and accessories - returning your treasured items to use and saving them from landfill.
For more information visit http://www.melbournerepaircafe.org/ or go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/melbournerepaircafe/.
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Join Compost Community Maribyrnong
 Say goodbye to food waste and join the Maribyrnong Compost Community! Compost Community offers free tutorials, activities and a community forum on composting systems - from bokashi to worm farming and even raising your own backyard chooks!
Joining is free and all members are eligible to purchase subsidised composting equipment, including a $30 discount on available products.
Visit Compost Community to sign up today.
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Hop into it this Summer!
 Frogs play an important role in the waterway ecosystem and are easily affected by changes to their environment. Get involved in community frog monitoring, and collect data to help manage frog populations and raise awareness of waterway health issues.
Jump on board, become a citizen scientist and download the frog census app today! Find out more at Melbourne Water.
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My Smart Garden
The My Smart Garden program is a sustainable gardening program managed by three local councils in inner west Melbourne – Moonee Valley, Hobsons Bay and Maribyrnong. We strive to build the resilience of local people living with a changing climate and scarcer resources.
Since 2011, our program has grown a network of over 1500 urban gardeners who are now gardening ‘smarter’: that is, harvesting and using water efficiently, growing food, using organic pesticides, recycling wastes and using vegetation to shelter their homes.
Our program aims to deliver training, provides best-practice gardening resources and build community connections around sustainable urban gardening.
For more information, visit: www.mysmartgarden.org.au
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