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The 11th annual Household Chemical CleanOut is on this October and November.

You can drop off all your old, unwanted and out of date pharmaceuticals, chemicals, paint, pesticides, weed killers, detergents and fuels for free at the collection points for your local community.

Check out the dates for your community collection points here

Waste 2 Art 2018

This year’s theme Waste is Polystyrene. The aim of Waste 2 Art is to challenge people’s perceptions about ‘rubbish’ and to celebrate the reuse and recycling of waste through arts and crafts. Waste 2 Art provides an innovative approach to waste education, invites schools and community groups to take up the challenge and create a new life for materials that would otherwise have been thrown away.

Congratulations to our 2015/16 Waste to Art Overall Winner, Jack Fox of Condobolin.

Jacks’ amazing work is titled “Alzheimer’s”. It won the category for High School 3D and then went on to take out the overall winners prize.  Jack describes his work as; “Hast du einen vogel”? is a German expression meaning ‘Are you crazy? or more literally ‘Do you have a bird in your brain’?. My work is a physical manifestation of this as it relates to, and explores the process and memory loss, as the bird flies away with the old
mans brain.

FOR A FULL LIST OF THE 2015/16 REGIONAL WASTE TO ART WINNERS CLICK HERE

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE2015 VILLAGE WASTE GRANT RECIPIENTS Millthorpe Village Committee

The committe are using their grant to establish a  water refilling station. You can find out more information about applying for the 2016 Village Waste Grant here.

New Community Recycling Centres (CRC) have been built in different Council areas to help deal with problem wastes’ including: paint, gas bottles, fire extinguishers, batteries, oils, smoke detectors, fluoro globes and tubes

Community Recycling Centre Locations

COUNCIL                                      LOCATION                                                                   CONTACT
Bathurst                                         Bathurst Waste Management Centre                 02 6332 9111
Blue Mountains                           Katoomba Waste Management Facility            02 4780 5000
Broken Hill                                    Broken Hill Waste Management Facility           08 8080 3300
Gilgandra                                      Gilgandra Waste Management Facility              02 6817 8866

For more information visit the EPA website  or contact the Councils listed above.