Annual eco events

Upcoming events

Clean Up Australia Day - Sunday 3 March 2024

Clean Up Australia Day 2024

Join in Australia's biggest community participation event where everyone is welcome! Get your clean up team together and register your site now. You can host or join a site on the day to meet other like-minded people and help make Randwick a clean and safe place.

Clean Up Australia Day is held on the first Sunday of March every year and encourages people to clean up their local areas. Participants can host or attend clean ups organised by local community groups, which can be found on the Clean Up Australia website.

The annual Clean Up Australia Day was first started 20 years ago by founder and Chairman Ian Kiernan AO, who passed away on 16 October 2018. More than 21 Million Australians have devoted 38.5 million hours to cleaning up the environment, through Clean Up Australia Day.

Register now at Clean Up Australia Day or call 1800 282 329 for more information.

Randwick Council will support by collecting all the rubbish that is picked up by your team.

To arrange collection of the rubbish and for any other information, contact Anil Gupta at anil.gupta@randwick.nsw.gov.au

World Environment Day

World Environment Day

World Environment Day is held each year on June 5 to raise awareness and action around protecting the natural environment around the Planet.

Of course, for Randwick City Council and its community, every day can be Environment Day with a broad range of collective actions and practical environmental solutions being taken across our City. From restoring native habitat, planting trees to cool our neighbourhoods from Climate Change, advocating for less plastics in our oceans and along our beaches, and recycling and recovering more and more of our different and difficult waste items.

The Randwick community has become champions when it comes to looking after what we increasingly realise is a fragile natural environment. And there’s still even more for you, your families and your friends to do and to take action around this World Environment Day and throughout all of June.

Earth Hour

Every year, since 2007, Earth Hour has been celebrated across the globe with the one iconic action of switching off the lights. But as we know, Earth Hour is so much more than that. It is a symbol of unity and hope. It is a symbol of power in collective action for the planet and our world communities.

Here's 20 things you can do at home or online this Earth Hour to spend the time reflecting on our world and our planet.

Share your Earth Hour experience by using the hashtag #EarthHour. Also you can tag @EarthHourOfficial on Instagram, @EarthHour on Facebook and @EarthHour on Twitter to share your posts and stories.

Here's other ways you can get involved:

By early next year, Randwick Council will be saving $350,000 and 3,000 tonnes of greenhouse emissions per year through:

  • 4,200 energy efficient street-lighting upgrades
  • switching to LED lights in all Council buildings
  • air conditioning upgrades at Council's Admin building
  • 200kW of rooftop solar across 14 Council buildings
  • sourcing 20% of Councils electricity from the Moree Solar

Learn about Randwick City’s energy saving incentives here.

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, when 2.2 million individuals and more than 2,000 businesses turned their lights off for one hour to take a stand against climate change. In 2020, Earth Hour has grown into a global sustainability movement with more than 7,000 cities in over 180 countries take part.

Eco Living Festival

Sunday 10 September 2023

Randwick Community Centre, 27 Munda Street Randwick

Randwick’s Eco Living Festival is the Eastern Suburbs longest running, free community and sustainability-focused event promoting innovative green living in a fun, family-friendly way.

Eco Living 2023 was jam-packed with workshops, talks, demonstrations, EV display, sustainable and organic food, fun family entertainment, and the latest ideas and information on living cleaner, greener and more sustainably.

For more information use this link

Garage Sale Trail

19 & 20 October

Garage Sale Trail is one BIG WEEKEND of garage sales that's happening right across Australia on October 19 and 20. It’s an idea to help encourage reuse, reduce waste and minimise our impact on mother nature.

We believe small actions drive BIG change. So while one garage sale on its own won’t make much difference, when hundreds of thousands of Australians get together in streets, community centres and schools to buy, sell and reuse at garage sales over a weekend… well, that’s a whole lotta difference.

Garage Sale Trail happens with the support of 146 Council partners and more than 400,000 bargain hunting, reuse loving Australians -who this year will shop and sell at more than 15,000 garage sales Australia-wide

Every garage sale has a unique name and its own sale page that provides clues to who's involved, what’s on offer and anything else that’s going down. Likewise, shoppers can search for sales, items of interest and make your own Trail of favourite sales to checkout.

Best GRIN idea

Enter our GReen Innovation ideas competition. It's not really a competition but we are interested in hearing from you with your best Green Innovation idea. Where possible we'll even see if we can implement or pass on the winning ideas. Let's be creative about the solutions for our Planet!

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Sustainable House Day

Tap into Local knowledge on Sustainable living — venue to be determined soon.

Open the door to sustainable living by touring our little house of sustainability, Barrett House, at 6 Barrett Place, Randwick and the Randwick Sustainability Hub at Randwick Community Centre.

Barrett House will open its doors to the public so people can see all the different sustainability features and learn how to successfully integrate renewable energy, recycling, and other sustainable practices into your home and lifestyle. The designer of Barrett House, Terry Bail (Archology) will be on hand to answer any questions and our sustainability team from Council will be hand to run 10 min tours of the Barrett House.

This unique event is a valuable resource for anyone looking for inspiration, ideas and the key to sustainable living.

Find out more...

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National Tree Day

Tree plantings at Council sites (includes Schools Tree Day)

Planet Ark is urging Australians to volunteer for National Tree Day on Sunday 28 July and Schools Tree Day on Friday 26 July.  

By taking part in National Tree Day, you will be contributing to Australia's largest community tree planting and nature-care event and joining thousands of individuals in making a difference, connecting people with nature, beautifying neighbourhoods and inspiring positive environmental change.

For future event updates, check this and What's On page and be sure follow us on facebook and twitter for more useful tips.

World Oceans Day

This World Oceans Day we’re celebrating protecting our oceans and beaches by finding solutions to ocean plastic pollution.

Ocean Action

Watch the Ocean Action Pod 'World Oceans Day' video

All too often we hear stories about marine animals being harmed by ocean pollution. We see upsetting images of turtles and seals caught in plastic nets, birds feeding their young tiny pieces of plastic, thinking they are food and see our own beaches littered with rubbish.

We know that around 8 million tonnes of plastic goes into our oceans every year, which is equivalent to 16 shopping bags full of plastic for every metre of coastline in the world. And guess what, every single piece of that plastic is still there, it doesn’t go away! It just gets smaller and smaller till we can’t see it anymore. The ocean is now awash with trillions upon trillions of microscopic plastic particles.

This World Oceans Day, take action on ocean plastic pollution. We need our oceans to be healthy and safe for all:

  • use reusable bottles. Remember to refill, not landfill
  • say goodbye to single use plastics and hello BYO! - bring your own reusable straw cup bag and spoon
  • put rubbish in the bin
  • Take 3 for the sea.

Find more information at Ocean Action Pod including educational resources.

Best Gift Market

Start your Christmas shopping early at this environmentally-friendly stocking filler winner at Coogee Beach!

The Best Gift Market is a new Christmas event showcasing local, handmade, environmentally friendly products. There will be market stalls with artisans and designers showcasing homewares, gifts and products from across the Eastern suburbs and wider Sydney.

More than 160 stallholders will have their original work for sale. They include interesting ceramics, handmade glass gifts, original fashion, clothing, blankets, knitted and wooden toys for babies and children, amazing jewellery, plants, swimwear, unique homewares and much more.

Use this link for more information

Last Updated: 15 February 2024
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