…the recent appointment of Andy Vagg to the position of Education Officer.

It has been a long term goal of Resource to create this position to further expand our commitment to community education in all things sustainable.

Andy is passionate about living sustainably, and is excited about his new role at Resource:

This is a really amazing place to work, and I am excited about the future of Resource in minimizing and redirecting post-consumer materials from landfill. There are so many great ideas around already, and often people are simply unaware. It is particularly exciting to see the potential of our young people to choose to live sustainably into the future.

Andy is working Tuesdays & Wednesdays and there are already new and exciting incentives underway.

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Welcome to the new website for Resource Work Cooperative!

We will continue to build our website over the coming weeks and months and we will be updating and adding on a regular basis. There will be plenty of interesting and useful information that will help you live sustainably into the future!

For instance:

• did you know that on average each year each person in Hobart contributes half a tonne of post-consumer material to landfill just from domestic collection alone
• then consider that about half of this material is organic kitchen and garden waste that could be made into useful compost
• and that it is estimated that if you add material discarded from manufacturing it is actually closer to one tonne of material per person per year destined for landfill
  
• now couple that to less than 100kg of post-consumer material recycled per person per year
• then you begin to get the picture that we need to rethink the way we are living!