Community

SAFE - Animal Rescue

SAFE Rehoming is a local non-profit animal rescue at Roseville, rescuing companion animals and finding their forever homes. Email: info@saferehoming.com.au

Teaching Your Learner Driver

Ku-ring-gai Council is holding a free online workshop which shares practical advice on how supervisors of learner drivers can help learners to become safe drivers.A range of topics are covered, including:

• Understanding the current laws for learner and provisional licence holders
• How to correctly complete the learner driver log book
• Techniques in supervising learner drivers
• Understanding the benefits of receiving supervised on-road driving experience

Date: Thursday 31 March 2022

Time: 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Via Zoom

Bookings are essential and limited

National Art School - April School Holidays Workshops

Future Makers Programs provide young people aged 6–16 with opportunities to engage with artists, art-making and other forms of creative production on site at NAS and online in your own home.

Eden Gardens - Sustainability Festival

Do you have empty plastic pots lying around your home and you’re not sure what to do with them?  During April, Eden Gardens would love to encourage people to bring their empty pots back. It’s easy – people can drop off their pots at Eden Gardens into a special recycling unit, and receive a 5% discount in store as a thank you.  Simply scan the QR code to receive your discount code word.  Then they will take care of the rest. Eden Gardens have organized for APCO to upcycle your waste into fresh pots for the nursery industry to grow their next crop of green goodies for your garden!

Polypropylene (PP) is a type of plastic commonly used in plant pots and other plant nursery packaging items such as labels, tags, stakes and trays. YOU CANNOT RECYCLE THESE IN YOUR YELLOW BIN through the normal council collection system.

In gardens, courtyards and on balconies all over the country there is usually a quite little corner in the shade where a stack of used potting containers are quietly but persistently growing. And unfortunately, they are destined for landfill. 

The good news is that PP is readily and repeatedly recyclable. All it needs is an efficient means of collection, recovery and recycling for re-manufacture into new plant packaging. Now is the time to clean out your pots. It’s an easy solution to keeping pots and other plant packaging out of landfill.