W3 - Sources of Recycled Materials

Reverse Garbage (http://www.reversegarbage.org.au/), 8/142 Addison Rd., Marrickville,Sydney NSW 2204 Ph: (02) 9569 3132 or Fax: (02) 9560 9765Drop in, from Mon - Sat, 9am - 5pm .

- see website for huge and changing variety of items available. Can Choose a 65L bag of items for $25 (but you need to add delivery of $30 as well).

Reverse Garbage Truck Inc., 1A Wingfield Street, FootscrayVIC 3011 Ph: (03) 9687 3484 or Fax: (03) 0687 3280

Junk Busters, 535 Nurigong st., Albury NSW 2640Ph/Fax: (02) 6041 4777

Pp.63-4 of EcoRecycle's 1997 'Becoming WasteWise' at http://www.ecorecycle.sustainability.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/Becoming_Waste_Wise.pdf contains a list of commercial organisations involved iin recycling paper, concrete, aluminium etc.
AND a more uo-to-date search engine for similar companies http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/www/html/1679-waste-wise-shopping-guide.asp

Some councils have Resource Recovery Centres at their landfills sites. Unlikley to have fabrics, papers and packing type materials, but everyhing else imaginable:

Bolinda Road, Campbellfield (Melway 7:H8)Ph: 9359 3813Fax: 9357 4154, opening times: 8.00am - 4.00pm (7 days)

Riddell Road, Sunbury (Melway 361:D8)Ph: 9744 2974Fax: 9740 9322, opening times: 10.00am - 4.00pm (7 days)

Savers (and other ops shops: St Vinnies', Salvos) - http://www.savers.com.au/ - are great sources of fabrics.

Clark Rubber for foams and plastics - http://www.clarkrubber.com.au/products-a-services/foam/foam-memory-foam-cut-foam/acoustic-foam-speciality-foam.html#peeled-foam

In addition: collect rubbish from me, neighbours, class, street hard rubbish collection, street dumpsters, mall dumpsters, organisation delivery departments, or decide to collect whatever appears at a specific location over a specific time... (I've started seeing 'useful' things caught in the weeds on the sides of the freeway and strewn across the St Albans Campus).

Source of statistics on plastic bag use:
http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/www/html/2713-use-less-plastic-shopping-bags.asp