We are holding a This is Your Waste installation in Edinburgh Gardens to encourage conversations about what each of us can do to reduce our waste footprint. Visitors will be taken on a journey through the gardens to come face-to-face with their waste.

For four days, Fitzroy North’s Edinburgh Gardens will be home to an installation featuring three transparent cubes filled with 4.8 cubic metres of plastic waste, 4.8 cubic metres of clothing waste, and 2.5 cubic metres of food waste. This represents the amount of food, clothing and plastic produced by the average Victorian household.

The free This Is Your Waste installation will be in the Edinburgh Gardens as National Recycling Week draws to a close, and is a timely reminder that recycling is not a stand-alone solution to waste production and management.

There will also be a live demo of a zero-waste picnic on the Saturday, where you can come and quiz our in-house waste experts! Bring yourselves, your families, some package-free snacks and lots of questions.

For more information on how to reduce waste visit: yarracity.vic.gov.au/reducewaste.

When

This is Your Waste installation: Thursday 14– Sunday 17 November

Zero Waste Picnic: Saturday 16 November from 12 noon to 5pm

Where

The North West end of Edinburgh Gardens (next to the skate bowl), Fitzroy North.