Items for sale

Vinyl The Reverse Garbage warehouse is brimming with colourful and interesting materials which were destined for landfill. We bring in a new truckload of materials every day, so the stock is always changing. The majority of our materials are pre-consumer discards from industry. We have timber, foam, plastics, vinyl, fabrics, metal, paper, tiles, glass, cardboard ... and so on.

Many of these materials are ideal for art and craft applications or for odd jobs around the home - at a cost far lower than purchasing "new" materials. When you don't need a whole sheet or length of something, you can buy a small piece or offcut at Reverse Garbage. Chances are that we will have what you're looking for - whether it's perspex, timber or bridal fabric!

Buying Reverse Garbage materials instead of "new" materials also helps you to reduce your personal ecological impact.

One section of the Reverse Garbage warehouse is called the baggable aisle. In this aisle, you can buy materials as mixed bags. The price for a large bag of mixed materials (large garbage bag size) is $20 while smaller bags cost $5. This is a great way for teachers to buy cheap materials for class projects.

Subscriptions

You can subscribe to Reverse Garbage and receive a 20% discount on raw materials and 10% off artworks in the gift shop, books and recycled office paper. Annual subscriptions cost:

$100 for organisations
$40 for individuals
$25 for students or concession card holders

Types of Materials

Reverse Garbage collects discards from more than 300 companies around Brisbane. Some companies are regular suppliers, ensuring that we have a reasonably constant supply of some materials. In other cases we do "one off" collections of discards. This means that we often have materials coming through the warehouse that are both unexpected and unlikely to be seen again. We can't guarantee that we will have the same materials that you found last time, but we can guarantee that we'll have something else in its place.

Regular materials

Fabrics

silk and satin wedding and evening dress offcuts
lambs wool offcuts
canvas offcuts
colourful sample books (ideal for patchwork)
rolls of fabric
hessian bags
small leather and suede offcuts
flag fabric
small bags of fancy offcuts
small carpet samples
rolls of wadding

Plastic

perspex and PVC offcuts (clear & coloured, 2mm-5mm thick - varying sizes)
holey strips in yellow and black
vinyl
upholstery foam offcuts
styrofoam (blue and white)
spools, reels and threadcones
padded vinyl
laminates
lighting gels
pipes and tubes of varying sizes and colours
fishing net offcuts
CDs, CD cases and DVD cases
plant pots
film canisters
shadecloth offcuts
corflute
foamcore offcuts
lids, containers and trays
various bright coloured plastic strips, bits, shapes spools and things...

Timber

pine and cedar (new offcuts - short lengths and blocks - various shapes)
hardwood (new offcuts - short lengths and blocks)
short lengths of pine dowel
recycled hardwood (longer lengths in various sizes)
MDF/craftwood (sheets and odd shapes)
ply (various sizes and thicknesses)
picture frames and framing offcuts
cable reels, large and small

Cardboard and Paper

cardboard cylinders 1cm - 50cm in diameter, 5cm - 5m long
cardboard strips, cards, posters - various sizes and colours
high quality paper offcuts
sticky labels
mattboard offcuts
coloured contact

Metals

mild steel - round bar and flat bar
odds and ends, including machinery parts
spun metal objects

Other

tiles (small glass mosaic tiles, boxes of plain tiles)
large brown glass bottles
Chinese takeaway containers
glass louvres
discarded theatre props
doors and windows
air-conditioning ducting
cardboard barrels with lids
44-gallon drums
light fittings
plaster teeth moulds
plaster feet
rope and twine
heaps of things that are difficult to describe.