If you live in Dubbo or Bathurst & have a Centrelink Health Care Card come and join Kate Bracks & learn how easy it is to prepare delicious healthy meals whilst avoiding food uwaste, saving time & money. Have fun & discover tips on shopping for, preparing & storing food. There will be lots of prizes & giveaways. Dubbo Workshops November 11 & Bathurst November 19 & 26. ow to enrol: Dubbo – contact Western College on 02 78842899 Bathurst – contact Alison Thompson at Bathurst Regional Council on 63336544.

View your local Council contacts, drop of points and dates here (NetWaste Council areas only).

Artist Alan Stanger from Dubbo NSW took out this years Waste to Art People’s Choice Award with his wondeful wprk ‘I’ll Be Book’. The work was entered into the Community 3D section and is a sculpture carved out of old books.

“I wanted to bring about awareness to the environmental advantages of downloading eBooks over buying conventional printed books. In terms of the environmental impact, in the NSW alone, the Paper   Book Industry consumes 32,000,000 trees per year. I chose to sculpt a bust of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s infamous ‘Terminator’ character as it represents technology of the future.” (Artist quote)

Congratulations to Alan on this wonderful achievement and to all of the Winners and entrents in this years Waste to Art. We look forward to seeing your works in 2015/16.

We would like to congratulate the winner Lesley Oliver of Bathurst NSW.

Artist Dean Mobbs (Dean Mobbs Gallery, Bathurst) kindly donated the pictured artwork as a prize for some lucky Regional Waste to Art Exhibition visitor. All entrants had to do was to complete a People’s Choice Award nomination and answer the following questions correctly:

• How many steel cans are used by Australians every year? ANSWER 1.7 Billion
• How many of these cans are recycled every year? ANSWER 35%
• Which metal items can go in your yellow lidded recycle bin? ANSWER Steel Cans, Aerosol Cans, Aluminium Cans

We would also like to acknowledge everyone that participated in the Peoples Choice Voting and hope that you enjoyed this wonderful exhibition.

Congratulations to Congratulations to Kindle Hill School years 7 through to 10 from the Blue Mountains, as these talented students were the Overall Regional Waste to Art Winners with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.