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Kintsugi Workshop- 21 October
Presenting an established and popular part of our workshop program: an age old way to minimise waste to landfill.
Kinds is the Japanese art of putting broken ceramics back together with gold — built on the idea that in embracing flaws and imperfections, you can create an even stronger, more beautiful piece of art. Every break is unique and instead of repairing an item like new, the 400-year-old technique actually highlights the "scars" as a part of the design.
This workshop includes a gold repair kit with all necessary equipment and artist tuition.
When: Thursday 21 October | 6:30 – 8:30pm
Where: Town of Cambridge Administration Building, 1 Bold Park Drive Floreat
Cost: $75 payable prior to workshop commencement
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Succulent Wreath Workshop-23 October
Come along to this workshop and make your very own bespoke wreath for all seasons.
You will need to supply:
- Variety of desired small succulent cuttings (approx. 30)
- Secateurs
- Gardening gloves
Everything else is supplied for you as part of the cost.
When: Saturday 23 October | 10:00 – 12:00am
Where: Town of Cambridge Administration Building, 1 Bold Park Drive Floreat
Cost: $75 payable prior to workshop commencement
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Bring your Bike Day-30 October
To celebrate Bike Month this October we are having a Bring Your Bike Day at Cambridge.
Lots to Learn and Do about your Bicycle!
1. Bike Recycling Station by Dismantle : (10am – 3pm) Donate your old bike to the award-winning WA charity Dismantle that supports over 400 at-risk young people each year, helping them to build the skills, confidence, and experience they need to get back on track.
2. Bike Maintenance Station by Bike Dr: (10am – 3pm)–Bring your bike and let the BikeDr help with basic maintenance and bike setups.
3. Bring Your Bike Stuff Swap, or any sports equipment: (10am – 3pm) Bring and Swap bike and sports equipment, including sports clothes, or just take what you like.
4. Halloween Bike Decoration Competition from 12pm, judging will take place at 12:30pm – Bring your decorated Halloween bike, all ages welcome, and stand the chance to win a $50 voucher from Wembley Cycles, as well as a number of smaller prizes.
5. Bike Safety Workshops by Bike Smart – Two sessions
Session 1: 11am – 12pm
Session 2: 1pm – 2pm
Registraions required for Safety Workshop of your Choice
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Recycle Right : New App Available
Recycle Right... encouraging and assisting residents and businesses in Western Australia to recycle, reduce their waste and live more sustainably
A new app and website has been launched to help the residents of the Town to Recycle Right.
The new resource (recycleright.wa.gov.au) encourages and assists residents and businesses in Western Australia to recycle, reduce their rubbish and buy more recycled products. Developed by the ‘Recycle Right’ education program, the much-anticipated update of the Recycle Right app features:
- Which Bin – find out at a glance, what goes in which bin along with what doesn’t belong there and the correct methods of disposal.
- Bin Day Reminders – set an alert to reminder you of which bin goes out on what day for your area.
- An ever-growing A–Z list of specific items and what to do with them.
- Find My Nearest – an extensive database of drop-off locations or recycling facilities in Perth for items such as batteries, car parts, building/demolition waste, hazardous household waste and more.
The website also provides a Resources Hub of worksheets, how-to guides, fact sheets and templates.
Information on both the app and website is tailored to the full assortment of bin systems found in our council: 3-bin GO (Garden Organics) system.
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Domestic Waste and Recycling Dashboard
Interested how the Town stacks up in terms of domestic waste and recycling?
This dashboard allows you to view information about the tonnes of waste collected and recovered by local governments in 2019–20 alongside trends in domestic waste collection and service provision since 2014–15.
The material recovery data is predominantly obtained from annual returns lodged by liable persons to the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation under regulation 18C of the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Regulations 2008.
The data can be filtered by local government, regions and waste service type.
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Ongoing Programs
Bin Fairy
Want to increase your recycling, reduce your waste to landfill or your dependence on plastics?
Your Town Waste Minimisation Officer is available for face to face sessions where you can obtain advice on recycling and minimising your waste to landfill. These are flexible sessions, held in your home at your convenience, and at times to suit you. Fill out an expression of interest form today!
Cambridge Gown Revival
Do you have a ball or event coming up?
Another first for any council – this is a joint initiative between Waste and the Library to slow down expensive fast fashion usually bought for one event and rarely worn again. Cambridge Library now offers the wonderful new resource of being able to borrow a ball gown or cocktail dress for that upcoming special occasion.
The Frock-Up Cambridge Gown Revival is not only a cost effective way to source that great gown, but also is a step towards limiting the resources used in fast fashion where items are only ever worn once and then kept in wardrobes forever more…. Or even worse - discarded. The only cost to the borrower is to have the dress dry-cleaned after use by the Floreat Forum dry cleaner.
For more details contact Cambridge Library on 9383 8999 or library@cambridge.wa.gov.au
Mattress/Ensemble Base Collection
All residents have access to free pre-booked mattress collection.
This includes mattresses and mattress ensembles bases only. No headboards, bed frames etc are collected in this program.
The average mattress consumes 0.75m³ of space in landfill and contains approximately 12.5kg of steel, 2kg of wood and 1.5 kg of foam. Collected mattresses and bases are delivered to Soft Landing in Wangara, where they are deconstructed. Up to 75% of the mattress components are able to be recycled.
Steel springs are recycled into products such as roof sheeting; foam into carpet underlay; husk into weed matting and mulch; timber into kindling, mulch and animal bedding; and fabric into end use products such as acoustic panelling.
For bookings go to our recycling Programs page on our website: https://www.cambridge.wa.gov.au/Resident/Waste-Recycling/Recycling-programs
Green Waste Bags
75L green waste bags are now available for purchase – these are perfect to put out items for green waste Verge Valet bookings (they will be left by the team after emptying). They are $10 for 2 and available from the Admin Centre.
Bin Services
Our Waste and Recycling section of the Town of Cambridge website is jammed full of information and self-serve pages.
Want to upgrade or downgrade your bins? Add another recycling or green waste bin? Report a damaged bin or lid? You can do it all online and your request goes directly to the Waste Team.
Where: Town of Cambridge Website: https://www.cambridge.wa.gov.au/Resident/Waste-Recycling/Bin-Requests-Reports
Cost: Vary according to requested service and are listed on the forms
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November/ December Diary Dates
E-waste Day- 6 November
De-clutter your house and protect our environment. Three times a year the Town holds free E-waste drop-off days, where you can drive in and drop off your E-waste at the Town of Cambridge Administration car park located at 1 Bold Park Drive in Floreat.
Please – no whitegoods!!
Remove all soft plastics, packaging including polystyrene and cardboard (WMRC receive these free of charge, soft plastics to Recycle outside Coles and Woolworths)
Things you can dispose of at an eWaste day:
Anything with a cord, plug or battery including:
- TV's
- DVD players
- Cameras
- Printers
- Speakers
- Laptops
- Computers
- Monitors
- Household appliances
- Phones
Year round free E-waste drop-off is also available at WMRC - our local recycling and transfer station: https://www.wmrc.wa.gov.au/
When: Saturday 6 November | 9- 4 pm
Where: Town of Cambridge Administration Building, 1 Bold Park Drive Floreat
Cost: Free
Adults Wardrobe Refresh- 21 November
Join us for Cambridge's Adult’s Wardrobe Refresh and save your money for experiences instead of wasting it on fast fashion!
Invite your friends and family so there are plenty of sizes and styles for everyone to choose from. Recycle the clothes, shoes and accessories that you no longer love or fit.
How does it work?
1. Clean out your wardrobe, drawers and storage.
2. Bring men's and women's clothing, accessories, shoes and items.
3. Bring your items on hangers and place them on the racks according to their sizes.Anything that is fold-able can go on the tables according to their sizes.
4. Browse the racks and take the items you'd like.
5. You can come and go at any time you like between 11.00 am and 2.00 pm on the day.
All items that have not been swapped will be donated to local charities by the Town.
When: Sunday 21 November | 11:00 – 2:00pm
Where: Town of Cambridge Administration Building, 1 Bold Park Drive Floreat
Cost: Free
Registrations essential here
Cambridge Repair Lab- December
Need something fixed? Come and learn some repairing skills and stop throwing good things away.
Repair Lab is a community initiative to help people fix their belongings, keep items in the system and reduce the burden on recycling, and ultimately save things going to landfill. Skilled volunteers will help you with repairs of clothing, textiles, bikes, furniture, jewellery, electronics and electrical, and general household items. If you're unsure, bring it down and we'll see what we can do!
If you have skills – we would love to welcome you as one of our volunteers.
When: Saturday 4 December | 10.30am – 12.30pm
Where: Town of Cambridge Administration Building, 1 Bold Park Drive Floreat
Cost: Free
Registrations essential here
Pool Cover and Plastics Drop Off Day - 4 December
You are invited to bring your clean and pre-sorted plastics, and asked to separate lids, bungs, rubber seals, rings of bottles. These will be received, but are often of a different plastic type so must be collected separately.
When: Saturday 4 December | 10:00 – 2:00
Where: Town of Cambridge Administration Building, 1 Bold Park Drive Floreat
Cost: Free
Please register your interest here-an updated list of current accepted plastics will be sent to you.
Nappy Workshop - December Date to be Confirmed
Did you know that a baby will use between 4,000 and 6,000 nappies before they are toilet trained?
Given that the average disposable nappy takes about 500 years to decompose, it is likely that every disposable nappy ever worn is still out there, somewhere... Not to mention the thousands of dollars spent buying all those nappies!
We'll will answer all of your cloth nappy questions such as:
- What is a drypail?
- What do I do with the poo?
- How do I stop the leaks?
- How to get them clean and fresh every wash?
- What type of cloth nappy is best for me?
Attendance qualifies you for a rebate on a nappy hire service.
When: Thursday evening 6:00-8:00pm– date to be confirmed
Where: Town of Cambridge Admin Building
Cost: Free
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