Some inner-west house hunting on the weekend prompted a wee detour over to Yarraville. Across the road from the train station on Anderson St, I stumbled on Green Collective, the store front for Green Collect: an amazing social enterprise helping divert reuseable and recoverable waste from contributing to Melbourne’s landfill.
Green Collect has been around for quite a few years now and I’d heard about their CBD collection programs for offices, but it’s always pretty exciting to come across a shop full of amazing, eco and ethical goods that’s also offering recycling services. Especially when I happen to be madly spring cleaning.
These guys can be very useful for you if you’re having a bout of the cleanouts. If you’ve got computer gear past its usable date, you need to dispose of that shit ethically. I know I’ve got a stash of batteries, toner cartridges and scratched to death discs I’ve been accumulating until I could find somewhere safe to dispose of them, and this is where they’re now going.
Green Collective will take used printer and toner cartridges as well as mobile phones, DVDs and other small IT accessories at their Yarraville and Brunswick stores and work their re-use-y magic with them.
Computers, printers and monitors can also be offloaded for around $10, which is a very small price to pay to know your former hardwares will be avoiding local landfill, and/or being shipped to third world countries as toxic waste. Take some comfort in knowing that you’re also supporting a service which is providing training and employment opportunities in some of Melbourne’s more socioeconomically disadvantaged areas.
While you’re there, shop their extensive range of eco cleaning products, gifts and homewares.
Green Collective Store locations:
71 Anderson Street, Yarraville, Victoria 3013, Australia
Open Monday to Friday 9.30am – 5pm; Saturday 10am – 4pm
Phone 9314 4987
318 Victoria Street, Brunswick, Victoria 3056, Australia
Open Monday to Friday 9.30am – 5pm; Saturday 10am – 4pm
Phone 9387 5926
- Cassie.
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3 Responses to Green Collect: Eco Garbos + Treasure Trove
LOVE Green Collect. They’re so lovely and have such a great ethos. We visit them in Brunswick regularly!
Do you, really? Wow – that’s fantastic. I remember reading about them in a magazine (perhaps Slow? I don’t know…) and being in awe of the structure of such a functional and friendly social enterprise. I was thrilled to hear that Cassie stumbled across them in Yarraville. I’m going to have to go and pay them a wee visit.
Hope the Green Car is working out wonderfully for you!
Thanks so much for hangin’ out, Tess. – MZ.