FREE Sustainable Living Workshops

Council is once again offering a series of FREE Sustainable Living workshops for the community. These are a fantastic opportunity to learn about how to reduce your impact on our environment and save some money as well! For more information, click on the image below to make it larger.

These workshops are being held as part of Council's Werrington Creek Rehabilitation Project.

Council staff have a clothing round up!

Sharon from the Salvo's is presented with a ute-load of clothes, donated by Penrith Council staff.

What happens when you have a clothing drive at Penrith Council? You get that many clothes you need a ute just to transport it all! Here in the Sustainability Unit we wanted to promote ‘Buy Nothing New Month’ to Council staff, and we figured a clothing drive was a great way to do it. We chose to donate the clothes to the local Salvo’s op shop – the Salvo’s are a partner of ‘Buy Nothing New Month’ and they do some great work for the community.

So with that we put the word out to staff to have a Spring clean and go through their wardrobes. They did the rest and the result was a ute-load of clothes! We didn’t count them (we’d still be counting), but we ‘guesstimate’ there’s about 200kg of clothes in there – a decent haul by any standards. Sharon, the Manager of the local Salvo’s Store, was thrilled with the result. In recent times they’ve been having difficulty attracting donations, so these clothes were warmly welcomed.

How about having a Spring clean of your own, and donate it to your local op shop? It’s a great opportunity to make some more room in your wardrobe and help out a charity. And why not ask your boss if you can do a clothing drive at your work? All it takes are some emails to your fellow staff and some signs to remind people – it’s easy to organise, doesn’t take much time and it’s great ‘social capital’ for a business.