After what feels like a long hiatus events are back on and the Mullum Cares Sustainable Events team hit the ground running delivering a beautiful Wash Station operation at Renew Fest.
Preparations for the event included harnessing our partnership with the Global Ripple Op Shop in Byron who donated plates, forks, broken denim garments, sheets and doona covers and then kicked in $1500 to sponsor the Wash Station operation. Gratitude for these folk overflows.
The denim and doona covers were upcycled to make aprons, tea towels, napkins and table clothes, the sheets were dyed to make wrist bands and the plates and forks added to the stock of reusables in the Library of Stuff‘s waste free catering inventory.
The timing of Renew Fest was perfect as the Byron Shire Echo published its annual Sustainability Supplement the same week. We took the opportunity to promote our Waste Free Event services.
We are excited to announce that we are the recipients of a Byron Shire Council Community Initiative Grant
Our Library of Stuff was seeded with a stock of reusable plates, cups, bowls and cutlery and all the infrastructure required to manage a Covid Safe washing service back in April 2017 when Mullum Cares ran its first Waste Free Catering programme at the Byron Spirit Festival.
The ground swell movement to address plastic pollution and particularly to stop using single use plastics has been a powerful global changemaker. Event managers are trying to manage the new compostable alternatives but we are not convinced these will prove a better humanitarian or environmental option to single use plastics.
What we felt would support our community without question was the addition of two mobile filtered water stations like the one we sucessfully crowdfunded for that is now installed out front of Santos Organics on Burringbar St and maintained by council.
So the grant we have received is for these two units that will be available for local events to hire on a sliding scale from $0 – $100 per day. You can view the units and their specifications here in the Library’s inventory and send a booking enquiry via this form.
You can also contact Sasha directly on 0422 641 474.