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Taking an active role in community and environmental projects and events is a core part of our business practice and social responsibility. As part of our Environmental Policy we have committed to instigate or participate in a minimum of two environmental and community events or projects annually. All events and projects Trash Bags instigates or participates in will be published in the Events section.
Christmas Fair!
Trash Bags will be having a store at Hughenden Hotel's Ethical and Organic Christmas Fair! To be held at the Hughenden Hotel, 14 Queen Street, Woollahra, NSW between 10am - 4pm Saturday 17th November 2007. SEE YOU THERE.
Design For a Sea Change UPDATE!
The competition held and the winner announced! Check out www.ghostnets.com.au for full details. The successful designer will be travelling to the gulf earlier this year and worked with the communites to test products and production. Time moves differently in the Gulf so the products are not yet ready for the stores but we will let you know as soon as they are!
Design For a Sea Change UPDATE!
The competition held and the winner announced! Check out www.ghostnets.com.au for full details. The successful designer will be travelling to the gulf in the new year (2007) to work with the communities. As soon as production starts we will have them available on the website for purchase. Thank you very much to everyone who entered and helped with this very exciting competition.
Cairns Envirofiesta Art Exhibition 2006
If your up in the beautiful tropics on the 4th of August drop in to the Envirofiesta art exhibition and checkout some of the Trash Bags Fantastic Plastic, Rejuiced and Paper Trail range. There is also the actual fiesta the next day that we are told is a whole lot of fun and a great day out! For more information check out www.envirofiesta.cafnec.org.au
Empower Youth Conference 2006
The Palmera Youth Projects (www.palmerayouthprojects.org) is holding a conference called EMPOWER - a two-day youth leadership and communications conference with a focus on developing relationships, networks and practical skills that will aid
participants in leading and implementing projects that benefit broader
society.
Trash Bags is very excited to be sending a representative along to talk about how and why we set up our environmentally sustainabale and fair trade business on Saturday 8th July.
National Greenbuild & Eco Show Exhibition & Conference 2006
Trash Bags is heading down to the trade show for the three days. Maske sure you come down to the Rosehills Gardens Exhibition Centre for a visit. We'll also be holding a raffle on each day... make sure you visit stall 34 to take away the prize. June 9 to 11.
Design For a Sea Change
Trash Bags is proud to be a sponsor of the Design for a Sea Change competition.
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Ghost nets are fishing nets that have been lost accidentally, deliberately discarded, or simply abandoned at sea. They travel the oceans of the world with the currents and tides continually fishing as they progress through the waters. As they are unattended and roaming, they fish indiscriminately, not only catching threatened species but undersized and protected fish as well.
The Carpentaria Ghost Nets Programme is hosting a competition to design a product reusing ghost nets that Indigenous Communities around the gulf can locally manufacture and sell through Indigenous enterprises.
Entries will be displayed and judged at the Garma Festival NE Arnhem Land, August 2006.
The time is limited – so don’t waste any – visit the website of the Carpentaria Ghost Nets Programme for full details, competition poster and entry form! www.ghostnets.com.au
But it doesn’t stop at the competition. Trash Bags is supporting the project by distributing the product and helping the project to establish its own networks and future wholesaling opportunities. We’ll be doing that through this website and our established retail partners. So if you are interested in hearing about the development of the product, when it will be released – just drop us a line.
National Tree Day 2006
We will be planting 20 naive trees (local to the area) on the banks of the Wilson River in Lismore as Trash Bags contribution to the National Tree Day effort.
The first project Trash Bags is involved in is a water resource information and education website called This Blue Planet. It is an interactive educator website and was researched written and designed by Trash Bags staff in partnership with the Center for Environmental Awareness and Education and Ilk Media. The website was launched in November 2005 and will continue to grow as educators and interested members of the public submit information. Definately worth a look!
Please note: this website has been decomissioned but please email us and we can provide you with a list of contact organizations to get you started on networking with environmental educators internationally.
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