Mullum Cares is a not for profit organisation that supports its local community to conserve resources by changing its consumer behaviours.
To protect and enhance the natural environment.
To achieve this we design and deliver programmes and projects that:
Inspire and enable our community to actively avoid products that are designed to be single use or of poor quality.
Keep products already made in use as long as possible and maximise their utility by sharing and caring for them in a dogged and determined fashion.
We combat over consumption and the resulting wasted emissions and depleting stores of precious raw materials by creating opportunities for our community to reduce their personal or organisations demands for resources. Our best work takes place when we create activities where community members work together to achieve resource conservation. We want community to reduce its collective impact so we give them ways to do exactly that.
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Think about what your money triggers when you spend it. It can trigger regenerative, neutral or degenerative outcomes. You don’t need to be perfect, just start by being aware of each transaction and which broad impact category each one falls into. Then make changes so you’re spending more and more of your money on regenerative products and services. Then share your tips and tricks with the world and ignore the opinions of people who are talking instead of changing.
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We run a co operative that share’s infrequently needed items amongst its household members. Co op members look after the stock and organise orders for local groups and businesses who want to ditch disposables and borrow our reusables to aim for zero waste events. Household memberships can be requested via the Library of Stuff page. Event hire enquiries (including sponsored events) can be made via the Wash Instead of Waste page.
Got upcycling ideas you’re keen to share? We have a workshop space available to host workshops and a passion for supporting budding makers. Check out our Salvage Culture page.
Flooding creates massive amounts of avoidable building material waste. If it floods again and your home floods, don’t rebuild like-for-like. Head to our Flood Resilience page as a starting point. We will activate our information and support service when required.
This is how we do it
Mullum Cares works with event organisers, local businesses, not for profit organisations, the Byron Shire Council and the wider community to identify and implement actions that result in the conservation of resources made for human consumption. Sometimes we design our own events but usually we help others to reduce the waste created by others.
A wide variety of projects and campaigns have been undertaken by Mullum Cares since our inception in Oct 2015. Check out our NEWS page to read just a few summaries of the actions we have been involved with.
