Come into the Centre to access the following resources:
- Recycling Service
- Sustainable Products
- DIY Home Energy Audit Toolkit
- Information Brochures
- Seminars and Workshops
- Equipment for loan/hire
- Advice
We will be putting a temporary hold on our recycling service from 31 July 2019, essentially to reassess the services we provide due to recent changes made by our partner organisations. Until then we can accept the following:
- Oral care products
- Mailing satchels
- Printer cartridges
- Pens, pencils and markers
- Nespresso coffee pods
Please note that Terracycle have ceased to recycle cosmetic products so we are unable to accept these.
We also have information about where to drop off other tricky items and how to recycle right at home. Keep an eye on our Facebook page and website for further updates.
2. Sustainable Products
Who Gives a Crap
We stock recycled paper and sustainable bamboo paper products from Who Gives a Crap, including toilet paper, tissues and paper towels. Pop in to the GEC office during opening hours 9am-4pm Tue-Thu to stock up.
50% of Who Gives a Crap profits go to toilet building products around the world.
Bamboo Toothbrushes
- Medium
- Soft
- Childrens
Beeswax (for beeswax wrap making)
3. DIY Home Energy Audit Toolkit
The Gawler Regional Natural Resource Centre recently purchased two DIY Home Energy Audit Toolkits. Both are available for the public to loan, one has been donated to the Gawler Library and the other is available from the Centre.
4. Information brochures on:
- Property Management
- Weed identification & Control
- Pest control information
- Water resource management
- Native re-vegetation
- Planting native seedlings – a how to guide
- How to construct a WICKING BED
- Wicking bed information
- Benefits of composting horse manure
- Horse friendly riding trails
- Backyard poultry
- Keeping meal worms
- Biodiversity
- Habitat creation
- Information on local wildlife including Bats, Possums, Birds, Frogs, Fish and Lizards
- Sustainable Living
- Energy Efficiency – A Home Energy Audit Kit can be borrowed
5. Seminars and Workshops
We run a variety of workshops and events during the year on topics such as composting, worm farming, green cleaning, soap making, wicking bed construction, bird ID etc. If you have an idea for a workshop you would like to come along to please let us know. Our annual events include the Understorey Project held May/June and the Sustainable Living Festival held in October. Check the Events/Projects tabs for upcoming workshops.
Our neighbours at the Northern Service Area of the Adelaide & Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resource Management Board have the following available:
- Rabbit warren ripper
- Animal Control
- Soil sampler & test kits
- Home energy audit kit
- Pindone carrots for rabbit control (only available for properties >1000sqm)
- 1080 baits for fox control available from authorised officers
- Tree popper
- Chemical swab bottle
6. Advice
The Northern Service Area of the Adelaide & Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resource Management Board has a number of staff based at the Gawler Office that can assist you with Land Management in the Region so come in and meet them. The Board provides a wide variety of services, incentive programs and courses for land holders, visit their website for more details: www.amlrnrm.sa.gov.au
