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 Most
of us have seen bins and skips full of materials that are too
good to throw out.... timber, wire, fabrics, vinyl, out-moded
stock. It seems absurd that companies are paying landfill fees
to waste these valuable resources when there are thousands of
people who could use these materials.
Industrial and commercial offcuts, over-runs, left-overs, outdated
stock and seconds that are currently sent to landfill can be
re-used by schools, artists, craftspeople, home handypeople
and the general community - re-use opportunities are limited
only by imagination!
Reverse Garbage was created to help make industrial discards available at low cost for creative
use by the Brisbane community.
We operate
a large retail warehouse at 296 Montague Road, West End, in Brisbane. We
collect a truckload of materials every weekday, so there's always
something new in the warehouse.
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 In November 1998, Reverse
Garbage Co-op Ltd was registered under the Qld Co-operatives
Act (1997) as a not-for-profit co-operative. We opened our doors
to the public in April 1999.
Reverse Garbage is a not-for-profit worker co-operative. We believe that the people who do
the work should be the ones making the decisions.
Therefore, all of our workers are also members of the co-operative; all of our members
are also directors and all of our directors must also be workers.
We operate use a consensus decision-making model.
Currently the Directors of Reverse Garbage are Bill Ennals, Lisa Owen, Samantha Hadnutt, Lyn Graham and Doug Pender.
Reverse Garbage was initiated to support Friends of the Earth - Brisbane, although
both remain separate, independent organisations. Any surplus
funds generated from the re-sale of discards are used for
the environmental education work of Friends of the Earth - Brisbane.
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We collect all sorts of amazing materials which we sell from
our retail warehouse at 296 Montague Road, West End, Brisbane.
If you're doing a project around the house and need some odds
and ends or if you're an artist or a teacher who needs materials
for your next project, chances are that you'll
find what you're looking for at Reverse Garbage.
We collect industrial discards from a wide range of businesses
and industries around Brisbane - printers, plastics manufacturers,
pillow-makers, upholsterers, theatre groups, government departments
- the list goes on. We collect any clean materials currently
going to landfill that could be
re-used in the community. Offcuts, over-runs, outdated stock, packaging
materials...all have a potential re-use limited only by imagination.
We house Echoes Gift Shop which showcases the work of local artists who use salvaged materials.
We also run junk art and sustainability workshops in schools and at festivals as well as hosting school excursions to our warehouse.
For more information about Reverse Garbage, please call
us on (07) 3844 9744 or drop in to the warehouse at 296 Montague
Road West End, Brisbane. We are open Monday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm.
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