BRAG Bunyip Renewables Action Group

10/06/2025

Great news:

Climate Council analysis shows more than two million batteries can be added at a household level, which wouldcollectively save Australians more than $4 billion a year on their power bills.

02/06/2025

SOFT PLASTIC RECYCLING TRIAL: Our first box has arrived!!

Thanks to the Bendigo Bank for sponsoring this trial.
The box is located inside the Bendigo Bank in Bunyip and will be monitored by members of the BRAG committee.

The following items will be accepted:
Any DRY soft plastics that can be SCRUNCHED INTO A BALL (no rigid plastics).

This includes items such as:
o Biscuit packets (outer wrapper only)
o Bread bags (without the tie)
o Bubble wrap
o Cat and dog food pouches (as clean and dry as possible)
o Cellophane from bunches of flowers
o Cereal box liners
o Chip and cracker packets (silver lined)
o Confectionery and snack wrappers
o Frozen food bags
o Ice cream wrappers
o Pasta bags
o Plastic bags
o Plastic film wrap from grocery items such as toilet paper
o Plastic sachets
o Potting mix and compost bags
o Rice bags
o Snap lock bags / zip lock bags
Please make sure your plastic is DRY and as empty as possible.

This is only a trial and if the drop off point becomes too messy or smelly the trial will be terminated.

PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING SO WE CAN REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF PLASTIC WASTE WE ARE SENDING TO LANDFILL.

26/05/2025

Thanks Cardinia Shire... a great initiative!!

22/05/2025

Tony’s birthday breakfast at Lund in Garfield… eggs Benedict for Tone and zucchini and corn fritters for me

22/05/2025

A big thankyou to Joel at JH signs for donating his time and materials to up grade BRAG's noticeboard in High Street....thanks also to Shae Wiedermann (mediaxpress) for her part in the design...the boards looks great!

Also don't forget to pop in and see us at the Bunyip Market... you can drop off used pens and markers, plastic bread tags, empty blister packs and, of course, your used, empty coffee cups.
We also have some information explaining all that battery terminology that we are starting to hear about, environmentally friendly power companies and local drop off points for hard to recycle items.

12/05/2025

https://designweek.melbourne/event/climaterelay-building/?utm_medium=advertising&utm_source=self+serve+meta&utm_campaign=melbourne+design+week+2025&utm_content=standard&utm_term=awareness

05/05/2025

17/04/2025

Wishing everyone a happy and safe Easter.... please try to do it sustainably by following these simple tips from Clean Up Australia

14/04/2025

The first commercial Plastics Filament MICROfactorie, designed by the UNSW SMaRT Centre, is now operating at Renew IT in Sydney, offering a new solution to Australia’s growing e-waste problem.

While the global average for yearly e-waste disposal is 7kg per person, the average Australian produces 20kg of e-waste a year and most of this ends up in landfill.

The newly launched MICROfactorie will work to change this trajectory by recycling hard plastics from e-waste items, like old printers and computers, into the filament needed for 3D printing and manufacturing – a product increasingly in demand and, currently, almost entirely imported to Australia.

“Many of the materials needed for our future needs are finite in supply,” says Professor Veena Sahajwalla, Founder and Director of the SMaRT Centre. “Waste itself can, and must, be seen as a resource with economic and social benefits as we strive to be more sustainable.”

Read the full story here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/03/world-first-UNSW-designed-recycling-facility-launch?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social