The Ashy Eco Hub
We are thrilled to introduce the latest ACC initiative – The Ashy Eco Hub. The Ashy Eco Hub provides a convenient one-stop-shop for recycling, sharing and produce from the Centre’s Green Deck for the local community. You can drop off a range of items to be recycled in the labelled tubs, choose a book from the community bookshop or grab a bag of coffee grounds for your garden. We are also on the look out for more ideas to grow our Eco Hub so let us know if there is something you would like to add to this evolving vibrant corner in our Centre.
The seed funding for the Eco Hub has generously been provided by the Bendigo Bank, and the Eco Hub is resourced by the Centre’s team of staff and volunteers who manage and organise the recycling of the items that are collected.
Our Centre receives ongoing support from the City of Boroondara, but this is unable to cover to the multitude of activities, initiatives and supports that we provide to the community. Financial donations are always welcome to help support the Ashy Eco Hub. Coins can be left in the yellow piggy banks, or you can click here to donate online – thank you for your support!
Our fabulous volunteer Barb is usually available on Wednesday mornings to catch up and share environmental pearls of wisdom! She is an absolute wealth of knowledge on all things recycling. Our Green Deck volunteer Charlotte is regularly topping up the Green Deck trolley with plants, seedlings, seeds, coffee grounds and more – it’s always worth a look.
We currently collect the following items for recycling: plastic bread tags, batteries, glasses & hearing aids, wire coat hangers, skincare & make-up packaging, corks, printer & ink cartridges, e-waste (small items only). With more to come!
Please note, we are no longer collecting blister packs.
Unfortunately due to the costs of recycling blister packs (approx 20c per strip) we are no longer able to accept blister packs at the Ashy Eco Hub. We have not received the community financial support that we had anticipated to cover the costs of recycling through Pharmacycle. We are hoping to find a solution and we are currently working with the local traders association, ‘Ashburton Traders,’ to seek funding for a project that will support the recycling of blister packs along High Street.
You can recycle your blister packs direct with Pharmacycle by ordering a satchel (from $29.95) at www.pharmacycle.com.au/shop or through most Chemist Warehouse stores.
There are no other recycling opportunities we can currently recommend. Please advocate to your local pharmacy, MP and larger pharmaceuticals to either implement legislation to reduce the number of mixed plastic metal packaging products which are hard to recycle and/or better recycling options for blister packs.