MRSG is looking for a community leader to help steer our MRSG Waste Action Group
Are you passionate about creating change and inspiring others to make a difference? Do you have good communication and leadership skills with the ability to organise a team towards a common goal? If so, Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group is looking for a Waste Action Group Leader to join our team! After a wonderful stint with Jos Moore at the helm, she is keen to step back from the leadership role and return to being a member of the group to focus her efforts on activities like recycling stations, outreach, and helping on the Wash Against Waste trailer. Thank you so much, Jos and all the best with your next exciting phase of helping the environment.
As the Waste Action Group Leader, you will be responsible for leading a team of dedicated and passionate volunteers towards achieving its vision “To Reduce Waste and Litter. We want a cleaner, less wasteful world.” You will work closely with other MRSG Action Group Leaders to develop and implement strategies that will help to drive MRSG’s Purpose.
To be successful in this role, you will be a natural communicator and have the ability to connect with others. You will love the challenge of organising volunteers and have experience managing projects or teams. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact on the world and in Macedon Ranges, and be part of a passionate and dedicated team. You will have the support of the MRSG Committee and other Action Group Leaders. If you are ready to take on a leadership role and make a positive difference in your community, we would love to hear from you. Please contact our Action Group Leader Liaison, Jenny Holliday jenny.holliday@mrsg.org.au
Waste & Recycling
Action Group Leader: Joslin Moore waste@mrsg.org.au
Our Vision: To Reduce Waste and Litter. We want a cleaner, less wasteful world.
Our Mantra: Refuse, Reduce, Re-educate, Reuse, Repair, Recycle, Rot (Only then to Landfill)
Our Values: We are creators rather than consumers who see waste as a resource and buy only what we need.
We are a passionate and active group who work in partnership with many other organisations across the Ranges to achieve our goals. Our long term goals include:
Behaviour and attitude change through education on waste streams, resource recovery and littering
Help connect the community to recycling opportunities in the region and reduce flow to waste to landfill
Carry out targeted actions to clean-up waste and litter
Join the Waste Action Group (WAG) on waste@mrsg.org.au in reducing waste and litter in the Macedon Ranges.
News
We’re looking for passionate volunteers for the Wash Against Waste effort at the 2024 Kyneton Agricultural Show. Come and have fun and be part of reducing single-use waste in our community. You will also get free entry to the Show!!
What an incredible Wash Against Waste effort at the Malmsbury Village Fayre! Thanks to the Fayre committee for hiring the Wash Against Waste trailer, the stallholders who all used the reusable dishes, and to our amazing Sustainable Malmsbury volunteers who collected and washed and dried all the dishes over and over and over!
This March MRSG Sustainable Homes Action Group is presenting the “Project Showcase”, an exhibition of projects Macedon Ranges householders have undertaken to make their homes more thermally comfortable, cheaper to run and more energy-efficient, and of work-from-home spaces that are reducing the need to commute.
(Image: Sam Clarke via Unsplash)
The Malmsbury Village Fayre is back on 20th November 2022. We need your help to wash dishes to keep up to 6000L of rubbish out of landfill. The first 20 volunteers will receive a free pie from the Malmsbury Bakery!
Congratulations to Joslin Moore, Waste Action Group, for becoming the new Loddon Mallee Waste and Recovery Community Champion.
Recycle old plastic, metal and plush toys at Big W Bendigo or Echuca
A joint project between Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group, Macedon Ranges Shire Council and local business, the Woodend Woodsman, during COVID lockdowns last year has resulted in a terrific Wash against Waste trailer which will go a long way in reducing disposable plastic waste at events and festivals in the Macedon Ranges.
Have your say about Victoria’s container deposit scheme: complete the survey by Nov 30.
The Terracycle Community Collection Hubs at Woodend Library and Neighbourhood House will be reopening soon, but without coffee pods. Read more to find out what you can do if you have pods to recycle.
Blogs
Are you trying to reduce your soft-plastic use in the wake of the soft-plastics recycling debacle? Read on for tips…
Geoffrey Murray, MRSG committee member and EO of the local Victorian Regional Recyclers, is conducting a trial with the Macedon Ranges Shire Council in the recycling of soft plastics. The following is from the Council’s press release.
When it comes to recycling it’s not for want of trying but sometimes it all seems too complicated. That’s when we disassociate ourselves from the problem and throw whatever it is into Landfill. Help is at hand!
Have you been saving your toothbrushes and bread tags? Have you been wondering where all that stuff goes and what happens to it? Here’s some information about why the Waste Action Group has joined Terracycle’s recycling schemes.
Shock News: Tetra Paks no longer recyclable in Australia! What will they take from us next?
It’s a wrap! Here’s to a huge year for the Waste Action Group with more to come in 2020. Happy crap-free Christmas and a waste-free New Year!
Did you know we throw out 30% more rubbish over Christmas here in Australia? Maybe this year it’s time to make Christmas less wasteful, and here are some good tips to get started.
Ever wondered what your hairdresser does with all that hair on the salon floor? Read about salons making the shift to minimize their waste and save resources.
Want to know more about taking your event waste-free? Or interested in how you can make a waste-free choice next time you are at a festival? Read on:
Dear Macedon Ranges Shire Councillors,
I call on you to declare a Climate Emergency as a first step towards meaningful nationwide action on Climate Change.
Last year, Coke pledged a “world without waste” by 2030 through a circular economy. So what’s the world’s largest plastic polluter actually doing to make that happen?
The Waste Action Team answers a frequently asked recycling question: “What can I do with squeeze tubes?”
The Macedon Ranges is going to get a FOGO system. What is it? Why is it important and why do we need to avoid wasting so much food?
How to keep your home clean and fresh while reducing waste and protecting the environment.
The Waste Action Group joins the campaign for a container deposit scheme in Victoria at the Sustainable Living Festival.
Leadership Team
Joslin Moore - Group Leader
Joe Pickin
Lynn White
Nea Gyorffy
Fran Carlton
Upcoming Events
Come and join us at the Sustainable Malmsbury Community Produce Swap and Recycling Station at the January Malmsbury Village Farmers Market
Come and join us at the Sustainable Malmsbury Community Produce Swap and Recycling Station at the February Malmsbury Village Farmers Market
Waste FAQs and Information
What’s Happening to our Glass?
What’s Happening with Bottle Tops?
What’s Happening with Squeeze Tubes?
Waste and Recycling Resources
Loddon Mallee Waste and Resource Recovery Group
Macedon Ranges Shire Council
https://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/Live-Work/Bins-Rubbish-Recycling
Campaigns and Waste-free Living
Bulk Buy Resources
There are a handful of places where you can buy in bulk in the Macedon Ranges and reduce your packaging waste. Let us know if you know other places to list and we will spread the word.
Nature’s Garden Organic Grocery
Kyneton Chemical Free
102 Mollison St, Kyneton VIC 3444
The Wash against Waste trailer is a partnership between the Macedon Ranges Shire Council and MRSG for the purpose of reducing waste at the various events and festivals in the Macedon Ranges. We are looking for volunteers to help out with the Wash against Waste trailer at some of these events.