Blackwood Environment Centre

20/05/2026

🌿 VOLUNTEERS WANTED 🌿
Want to help reduce waste, protect the environment, and support future generations? We're looking for volunteers for flexible 2–4 hour shifts. Join a welcoming community of people passionate about sustainability and practical environmental action.

You could help with:
📚 Blackwood Library of Things borrowing support
♻️ Household recycling management
🛠️ General maintenance and Test & Tag
📦 Donation sorting and inventory tasks
🌱 The Eco Station support
💬 Helping visitors and community education

No special experience needed — just enthusiasm and a willingness to help. Together we can keep valuable items out of landfill and build a more sustainable future 🌏
Send us a message to get involved!

15/05/2026

We're looking for a Committee Secretary to join the environment centre! If you're organised and have some time, we'd love to hear from you. Just send us an email or send us a message to get in touch.

08/05/2026

We don't want plastic in the environment. Recycling soft plastic shouldn't reduce efforts to redesign, refuse and reduce it, but at least the return of soft plastic recycling will go some way to closing the loop and replacing virgin materials.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-30/soft-plastics-recycling-is-back-in-australia-how-does-it-work-/105912070
"We can't recycle ourselves out of the plastic pollution problem" - Nina Gbor, director of circular economy and waste at the Australia Institute

You read that right – soft plastics recycling is back!

Your clean and dry soft plastics can now be dropped off to the dedicated soft plastic recycling bins located at the front of all metropolitan Woolworths stores in South Australia.

In partnership with Soft Plastics Stewardship Australia (SPSA), these soft plastics will be recycled into new products such as building materials and food grade packaging, helping to create a circular economy.

If you can't access one of these locations, soft plastics should only be placed in your red/blue landfill bin – never in your yellow recycling bin or green organics bin.

Learn more: https://www.whichbin.sa.gov.au/tips/drop-off-soft-plastics

28/04/2026

See you at State Flora Nurseries this Sunday!
🎗️ https://www.facebook.com/events/1562892228145858/

21/04/2026

Our next workshop🤗 May 9th - Learn to fix those items of clothing and socks you love ❤️
Melinda, who comes to our Crafty Tuesdays, uses her time to darn unwanted holes in her favourite socks and clothes. We thought it would be great if she could show others how to do it with the particular style of honeycombing as it looks and feels really good!
Book through the link or pop into the Centre and book.

Darning Workshop with Melinda WHY THROW THOSE FAVORITE SOCKS AND KNITTED ITEMS AWAY WHEN YOU CAN LEARN TO DARN! MELINDA USES THE DURABLE...

17/04/2026

Amazing work Friends of Parks and Nature Brownhill Creek! If you want to help, check out how here: https://friendsofparkssa.org.au/members/members-directory/friends-of-brownhill-creek/

Great news! ❤️👏

A colony of South Australia's last remaining bandicoot species is bouncing back just 6 kilometres from Adelaide amid hopes they can be connected with other populations.

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-17/bandicoots-bouncing-back-in-brown-hill-creek-along-superhighway/106572148

An endangered southern brown bandicoot was first spotted in Brownhill Creek Recreation Park about six years ago, prompting Conservation Volunteers Australia to erect cameras to count them.

That resulted in the construction of a grazing enclosure led by the Friends of Brownhill Creek, inside which blackberry bushes and weeds were removed and native plants allowed to grow without being grazed by kangaroos and feral deer.

✍️: Malcolm Sutton ABC Adelaide

05/04/2026

A quick interruption to let you know we’ll be back to normal opening hours this week, opening on Tuesday at 10am. Now back to the chocolate! And don’t forget to roll that foil into a ball for recycling ♻️