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Low-Waste Living for Every Home. At Home With… Lindsay Miles

Low-Waste Living for Every Home. At Home With… Lindsay Miles When - 27th May  Time - 12:00 - 13:00 GMT+10 Virtual - register here https://luma.com/AT-HOME?e=evt-s2tLk5Gzxui5m1P [https://luma.com/AT-HOME?e=evt-s2tLk5Gzxui5m1P] Join sustainability advocate Lindsay Miles for a warm, practical session on creating a low-waste home that saves money, reduces environmental impact, and simplifies daily life. She will share realistic, actionable strategies for reducing waste in kitchens and throughout the home. Who is Lindsay Miles? Lindsay Miles is an educator, speaker, and author, known for her long-running sustainability blog Treading My Own Path and her books Less Stuff and The Less Waste No Fuss Kitchen. She helps people live meaningful, lower-waste lives through practical tips, workshops, and hands-on guidance. (treadingmyownpath.com [http://treadingmyownpath.com/?utm_source=luma]) What You’ll Learn: * How to reduce clutter and organise your home * Ways to repair, maintain, and reuse items * Small but meaningful changes to cut food and packaging waste * How to build sustainable routines without feeling pressured * Tips for creating a home environment that enhances wellbeing and comfort What You’ll Get: * Practical, hands-on strategies to implement immediately * Sustainable and resourceful: extend item life and reduce consumption * Supports wellbeing by improving comfort and reducing stress   Who Should Attend: * Anyone wanting sustainable, comfortable, simple living * Residents seeking practical tips to reduce waste * People interested in mindful living and low-waste strategies

Composting Fundamentals: Turning Waste into Wealth for Your Garden - Webinar

Composting Fundamentals: Turning Waste into Wealth for Your Garden When - Tuesday 12 May Time - 12:00 - 13:00 GMT+10  Virtual   Registration  Welcome! To join the event, please register below. Register https://luma.com/kxpjhktx [https://luma.com/kxpjhktx] About Event Composting is an easy, effective way to reduce household waste while enriching your garden. Natasha Morgan will guide you through basic composting, showing how even small setups can transform kitchen scraps and garden waste into nutrient‑rich soil — suitable for backyards, balconies, and community gardens. Who is Natasha Morgan? Natasha Morgan is a landscape architect, lifelong gardener, educator, and author based in Daylesford, Victoria. She founded Oak & Monkey Puzzle and now runs Little Cottage on a Hill, where she creates productive, sustainable gardens, leads workshops and shares practical growing, design and seasonal skills with gardeners and communities.  What You’ll Learn: * Different compost types and systems — heaps, bins, worm farms, bokashi * What can and cannot be composted * How to troubleshoot and maintain a compost system * Using finished compost to improve soil, water retention, and plant growth * Seasonal tips for year‑round composting success   What Attendees Will Get: * Hands‑on guidance for setting up and maintaining a compost system * Expert advice on maximising decomposition and using compost effectively * Q&A with Natasha Morgan on small‑space solutions and household integration   Who Should Attend: * Home gardeners, renters, and anyone reducing food and garden waste * Community garden coordinators or school programs * Sustainability enthusiasts  

Good For The Hood - IT IS ALL ABOUT MAKING SUSTAINABLE LIVING EASY, FUN AND REWARDING

Good For The Hood is now available to the QPRC community. Creating sustainability champions, one module at a time. The @ HOME program simplifies sustainability to behaviours and actions that anyone can do. It's fully funded by participating councils, making it free for residents and easy to get involved. Good For the Hood provides webinars and videos on how to live more sustainably in your community with lots of hints and tips on not only waste, but composting, food, transport, water, gardening, resourceful living, energy, caring for ourselves and your community.  Sign up for free to access webinars, videos and information. https://www.goodforthehood.com.au/queanbeyan-palerang [https://www.goodforthehood.com.au/queanbeyan-palerang]  We all need help to develop good sustainability habits choices. Sometimes we want to hear it from an expert, sometimes from our neighbours. By working closely with councils around Australia, we can help residents build knowledge and capacity at a local level through our signature program @ HOME. Upcoming Webinars:  * Designing for Success - Smar Home Design for Builders & Renovators - With Michael Drage - 7th April 2026 - * Composing Fundamentals: Turning Waste into Wealth for Your Garden - With Natasha Morgan - 12th May 2026 - * Low- Waste Living for Every Home, At Home with Lindsay Miles - 27th May 2026 * Driving Smart: Expert Insigts on EV costs - with Brendon Doyle - 24th June 2026

Christmas Day Bin Collection Changes and Waste Transfer Station Closures

With Christmas Day falling on a Thursday this year, there will be some changes to bin collection schedules.  Bins normally collected on Thursday will be collected on Saturday 27th December instead.  Please ensure your bins are out Friday night, 26th December, to avoid missing the collection.  These changes will affect : * Captains Flat * Queanbeyan suburbs with a regular Thursday collection * Rural areas with a regular Thursday collection If you are not sure of your collection day, please check the waste calendar via the app or the council website waste page. https://www.qprc.nsw.gov.au/Waste-Environment-Sustainability/Waste [https://www.qprc.nsw.gov.au/Waste-Environment-Sustainability/Waste]  To ensure your bin is collected,  please place the bin out the night before, ensure the bin lid is closed, the bin is not obstructed, bins are not too heavy,  bins are placed 50cm apart and the bins contain the correct items. Check the app or the council website to find out what is accepted in each of the bin types https://www.qprc.nsw.gov.au/Waste-Environment-Sustainability/Waste [https://www.qprc.nsw.gov.au/Waste-Environment-Sustainability/Waste] If you live in a Multi unit and share bins,  and your  bins are normally collected from the waste enclosure on a Thursday, they will be collected Saturday 27th December. Please leave bins in the waste enclosure. If your bin is missed, please lodge a missed bin collection form via the app or the council website waste page.  https://www.qprc.nsw.gov.au/Waste-Environment-Sustainability/Waste [https://www.qprc.nsw.gov.au/Waste-Environment-Sustainability/Waste]  The Queanbeyan Waste Minimisation Centre  * Closed Christmas Day, then open as normal. * Check via the app or the council website waste page for information on what can be taken to the waste transfer stations, Queanbeyan waste minimisation centre and opening times https://www.qprc.nsw.gov.au/Waste-Environment-Sustainability/Waste [https://www.qprc.nsw.gov.au/Waste-Environment-Sustainability/Waste] Have a wonderful and safe holiday season The waste team         

National Recycling Week - Free Textile collection trial 10th November - 16th November 2025

Give your old clothes and linen a second life this National Recycling Week!   4 November 2025   Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council is joining councils across the region for an exciting textile recycling event this November in celebration of National Recycling Week (10–16 November) and you’re invited to get involved!   The Textile Recycling Trial, funded by the Canberra Region Joint Organisation, is your chance to make a real difference. We're calling on the community to help divert unwanted textiles like clothing, shoes, belts, handbags, and linens from ending up in landfill. Let’s recycle, repurpose, and give these items a second life.   Drop-off locations are open across the Queanbeyan-Palerang region at the following venues: * Queanbeyan Waste Minimisation Centre (5 Lorn Road, Crestwood) * Monday 10 to Friday 14 November, 9.15am–4.15pm * Bungendore Transfer Station (210 Tarago Road, Bungendore): * Monday 10 November 7am–12pm * Friday 14 November 12.30–4.30pm, * Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 November 8am–4.30pm * Braidwood Transfer Station (117 Bombay Road, Braidwood): * Monday 10 November 10am–4:30pm * Friday 14 November 10am–4.30pm * Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 November 10am–4.30pm   What Can You Recycle? * Clothing * Shoes, belts, handbags * Linen, towels, blankets * Curtains   Items We Can’t Accept: * Soft toys, doonas, pillows, or cushions * Electric blankets * Suitcases, mats, rugs, and carpet * Fabric off-cuts   Remember, all donated items must be clean and dry. Friendly staff will be on site to assist with your drop-offs.   Collected textiles will be managed by Nowra-based RRR Australia (Reuse – Repurpose – Recycle), ensuring items in good condition are donated locally and overseas, while unwearable items are transformed into cleaning rags or recycled into innovative new products like rugs and floormats.   For more information on the Textile Recycling Trial, please contact our Customer Service team on 1300 735 025 or email wastematters@qprc.nsw.gov.au [wastematters@qprc.nsw.gov.au]

Household Chemical Cleanout Day 2025 - Dates and drop off locations

The NSW Government works together with local councils to host these events, which are free and held across NSW on specified dates throughout the year. The safe way to dispose of potentially hazardous household chemicals is at a Household Chemical CleanOut event. These events are free services held across NSW on specified dates. The next proposed scheduled events are:  * Bungendore Waste Transfer Station -11 October 2025- 210 Tarago Road Bungendore - Saturday - 8am - 11am * Braidwood Waste Transfer Station -11 October 2025 -  117 Bombay Road Braidwood - Saturday - 1pm - 4pm * Queanbeyan Waste Minimisation Centre -12 October 2025 -  5 Lorn Road Crestwood - Sunday -  8am - 11am  Eligible Items  You can drop off up to 20 litres or 20 kilograms of a single item for the following chemicals at cleanout events: * solvents and household cleaners * floor care products * ammonia-based cleaners * pesticides and herbicides * poisons * pool chemicals * hobby chemicals * motor fuels * paint and paint-related products * fluorescent globes and tubes * acids and alkalis * smoke detectors * gas bottles * fire extinguishers * car and household batteries * motor and cooking oils. Please note that paints, fluorescent globes and tubes, smoke detectors, gas bottles, batteries, motor oils and cooking oils can be dropped off at the Bungendore waste transfer station and the Queanbeyan Waste Minimisation Centre at the CRC during normal opening hours during the year.  Batteries can also be taken to any Bcycle locations https://bcycle.com.au/drop-off/ [https://bcycle.com.au/drop-off/] 

Household Chemical Cleanout Day Locations and dates for 2025

The NSW Government works together with local councils to host these events, which are free and held across NSW on specified dates throughout the year. The safe way to dispose of potentially hazardous household chemicals is at a Household Chemical CleanOut event. These events are free services held across NSW on specified dates. The next proposed scheduled events are:  * Bungendore Waste Transfer Station -11 October 2025- 210 Tarago Road Bungendore - Saturday - 8am - 11am * Braidwood Waste Transfer Station -11 October 2025 -  117 Bombay Road Braidwood - Saturday - 1pm - 4pm * Queanbeyan Waste Minimisation Centre -12 October 2025 -  5 Lorn Road Crestwood - Sunday -  8am - 11am  Eligible Items  You can drop off up to 20 litres or 20 kilograms of a single item for the following chemicals at cleanout events: * solvents and household cleaners * floor care products * ammonia-based cleaners * pesticides and herbicides * poisons * pool chemicals * hobby chemicals * motor fuels * paint and paint-related products * fluorescent globes and tubes * acids and alkalis * smoke detectors * gas bottles * fire extinguishers * car and household batteries * motor and cooking oils. Please note that paints, fluorescent globes and tubes, smoke detectors, gas bottles, batteries, motor oils and cooking oils can be dropped off at the Bungendore waste transfer station and the Queanbeyan Waste Minimisation Centre at the CRC during normal opening hours during the year.  Batteries can also be taken to any Bcycle locations https://bcycle.com.au/drop-off/ [https://bcycle.com.au/drop-off/]