Make Love Not Waste! If there’s anything the world needs its less stuff and more love. Why waste it? Valentine’s Day is just another day that corporations can capitalize on our wasteful and consumerist behaviour. This Valentine’s Day express your love and admiration with less stuff and more caring gestures Read more…
Now that Christmas is over and it’s time to take down the lights and decorations, you may have found that some lights are no longer working. Before you throw them out, here’s a few steps to take save them from landfill. Replace the batteries If they are solar powered, you Read more…
Let’s avoid, reduce, re-use and recycle these holidays! Holidays are a great time to travel, explore and visit friends and family. Here’s some tips on how to make it less wasteful. Avoid Avoid driving in the car and get out with the family for a bike ride or walk. Also Read more…
Let’s avoid, reduce, re-use, recycle and compost this Christmas! With Christmas just around the corner, here’s some great ways you can avoid, reduce, re-use, recycle and compost waste, which can save you time and money too! Avoid Research for Gumtree in 2016 stated that we are wasting a staggering $620 million on Read more…
✋AVOID and REDUCE Avoid all the individually wrapped, sugar filled treats which are unhealthy for us and our planet! Make your own homemade treats and goodies to give away to friends and family (avoid using nuts and eggs as these may trigger allergies). Think of healthy but fun treats, have Read more…
In December this year East Waste will commission South Australia’s first fully electric-powered waste collection truck. East Waste Chairman Brian Cunningham said the new truck will replace a diesel-powered truck and, with zero emissions, remove from our suburban streets the polluting equivalent of 20 vehicles generating 63 tonnes of carbon Read more…
To celebrate International Compost Awareness Week 5-11 May, Jeffries are providing a ‘Buy one, get one FREE’ offer for 30 Litre Jeffries Organic Compost. Why waste it? Get your free bag and grow something amazing! To redeem simply add two or more bags of Jeffries Organic Compost to your cart Read more…
The latest release of the My Local Services App includes a number of updates, most notably the enhanced spotlights with recycling and waste notifications developed as a result of a collaboration with East Waste, Research & Development Scheme and the Local Government Association of South Australia. This enhancement aims to Read more…
The resources that we collect on behalf of East Waste’s seven Member Council’s are processed at Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority (NAWMA) Resource Recovery Centre. They are already directing about 80% of materials to domestic remanufacturing facilities and aim to have 100% of materials reprocessed within Australia by 2020. Click Read more…
Happy Birthday to us all! Founded on 19 July 1928 and originally comprising of the Corporations of Kensington & Norwood and St. Peters and the District Councils of Burnside, Payneham and Walkerville, East Waste was originally known as the East Torrens Municipal Destructor Trust. In 1993 our name changed to Read more…