Zero Waste Magnetic Island

17/03/2026

Updated schedule

17/10/2025

🤩Local businesses at MI markets are proving that sustainability and success go hand in hand. ✅️Meet Paul O’Neill, who’s turning up the heat sustainably with his island-made chilli 🌶products & Karen Fardouly, who transforms second-hand clothing 👗👕into unique, upcycled fashion at the Magnetic Island Markets.😍
💥Be inspired to shop local, support island makers, and rethink what “eco-friendly business” really looks like.💚 🌺

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On beautiful Magnetic Island, 80% national park & located within the Great Barrier Reef, local businesses at MI markets are proving that sustainability and s...

10/10/2025

💥JunkFest winners & gallery have been released with winners listed on the JunkFest web page. 🏆 There are heaps of photos in the gallery in the link and just a small selection in this post, so please, just click on this link: 👇
https://www.junkfest.com.au/2025.

🌿👌With over 500 attending and 60 entries, minimal waste & lotsa fun, we think that JunkFest was a HIT. ! 😍👏Thanks so much to our Sponsors and Partners, who provided cash prizes, funding, prizes & support for the inaugural JunkFest. 🤩
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💥Townsville City Council
🍃Great Barrier Reef Foundation in Partnership with MICDA
🐬Port of Townsville
♻️Containers for Change (CoEx)
🚍MI Ride Discovery Tours
🤙Town Island Couriers
🎉Maggie Island Brewery
💮Magnetic Group
🤙DTE Excavations & Tree Services
💚Eco Trilogy
♻️Reef Assist & Bio-Regen
💥Boomerang Alliance
⛴️Magnetic Island Ferries
🎉Magnetic Island Party Hire
🐳Aquascene Magnetic Island
👌Nomads
🥗Sandi’s on Magnetic
🥐Arcadia Bakehouse
🏦Queensland Country Bank
🌿Lucent Globe
🤙The Vertical Bear
👌Pandanas
🥰thank you all 👏

Mark Russell

Plastic Free Townsville

08/10/2025

🤙Don't forget to complete the JunkFest 2025 - Magnetic Island Survey. 😁For future funding & to improve the festival next time it's held (fingers crossed 🤞), we really need your input. 🥰

Use the QR code or click on this link.👇
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5VC99B7

👉Complete the Survey & be in the draw for a great prize 🏆of a $100 island restaurant voucher or an island boat cruise for 2. 💥

Zero Waste Magnetic Island

Zero Waste Magnetic Island
MICDA
Townsville City Council

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08/10/2025

Thanks for this reel & helping be a Zero Waste festival.

06/10/2025

Return it have advised no 10c container collection today on the island due to tides. Don't shoot the messenger.

03/10/2025

💥On Winn TV tonight ! Who caught our JunkFest 2025 - Magnetic Island fashionistas? 🤩

✅️Thanks Ragbag Women , Freya, Ollie & Chloe for being part of the WinnTV clip. 😁

MICDA

Zero Waste Magnetic Island
Our World Heritage Island

We’ve all heard ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ before, but that will be the focus of a new event on Magnetic Island tomorrow!

Junkfest focusing on giving everyday items a new lease on life, as the island aims to become a zero waste community.

We’ll have more on from 5:30pm.

MICDA

02/10/2025

02/10/2025

💥This Saturday🤩 Zero Waste Magnetic Island a MICDA group is proud to host the FIRST large Zero Waste event on the Island ! ♻️See for yourself and come to JunkFest on Saturday 4 October 2025 !✅️✨️

💃 Dance, Junk Art 🎨, Junk Sculpture, Junk Fashion. 🎶 Music, free kids activities, market stalls, Big Eye theater, adult workshops, 🏆 prizes & lotsa fun.🎉

🤙Thanks Eco-trilogy, VRM & Reef Assist for helping this be a Zero Waste event.

Mark Russell
Zero Waste Magnetic Island
Zero Waste Magnetic Island

27/09/2025

💥Whoo hoo 🎉Next Saturday !👌
👉 Free Music, free kids activities, free arts & crafts workshops, Junk Art, Junk Fashion parade 💃(wear your outfit and enter the junk fashion competition on the day 10-11am), $250 -$1000 prizes,🏆 market & food stalls..🤗the biggest Zero Waste event ever to be held on Magnetic island. ✨️💚Come to JunkFest 2025 - Magnetic Island

www.junkfest.com.au




Zero Waste Magnetic Island
MICDA

JunkFest 2025 on Magnetic Island is a celebration of art, culture, and sustainability, where discarded items become extraordinary sculptures, fashion, access...