e-News February 2016

        

Dear 
  
Welcome to the first newsletter for 2016.  

I am pleased to announce the details of the 2016 NACRO National Conference to be held in Surfers Paradise, Queensland on Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 October,with the welcome reception on Sunday, 9 October. Planning is well underway to bring together a stimulating program of speakers plus memorable networking opportunities. Details will be published on the conference website as they become available.

As with previous years, NACRO continues to work with members and state governments in 2016, to ensure the sustainability and prosperity of Australia's charitable recycling sector to be able to continue to provide essential funding for your important charitable work in the community.

Kind regards
Kerryn Caulfield 
Chief Executive Officer, NACRO    Top
In this issue (click on title)
Changes to NSW charity bin stickers
NSW introduces online reporting of illegal dumping
NSW Container Deposit Scheme
Uber partners Australian Red Cross
Salvos open store No. 101
Illegal dumping on charities media campaigns
Finishing on a happy note ...
Changes to NSW charity bin stickers
The NSW Office of Charities is now responsible for issuing stickers declaring donation bins are "charity operated". Application forms that were previously issued by the Office of Liquor Gaming & Racing are now void and a new application system is in place.

To apply for stickers email inquiries@finance.nsw.gov.au with your NSW authority to fund raise number; the number of stickers required and delivery address.  Telephone inquiries: 02 9895 0011

Stickers are being issued free for the time being. 
NSW gives public access to report illegal dumping at the click of a button
The general public can now report illegal dumping to the New South Wales government at the click of a button. A new RIDonline website allows the public to tag the GPS location of waste being dumped, attach a photo and describe the type of rubbish. The smartphone-accessible tool then notifies the Environment Protection Authority, councils and Regional Illegal Dumping squads to investigate and, if appropriate, issue fines or clean-up notices.Penalties can reach $15,000 and potential jail time for anybody caught illegally dumping within five years of a prior illegal dumping conviction. RIDonline has been available to the EPA, councils, RID squads and public land managers since September last year. It is now available to the public at 
this link. 
The online tool is part of the NSW government's five year, $58 million plan to tackle illegal dumping.

NSW Container Deposit Scheme
Last December the NSW government released a discussion paper on the establishment of a Container Deposit Scheme. NACRO members have responded from their individual perspective.

As part of the community consultation, the NSW Minister for Environment, Mark Speakman, is meeting this week with representatives of community groups with an interest in recycling including NACRO (represented by Peter Lombardo, Intake and Logistics manager for The Smith Family), Clean Up Australia, Scouts NSW and Waste Aid. The discussion paper is available online here ...
UBER partners Australian Red Cross for clothing collection day
On Sunday, 31 January, UBER partnered with Australian Red Cross to make clothing donations quick and convenient.

In nine cities across the country, UBER driver-partners collected unwanted gifts,  pre-loved clothing and accessories, from households that ordered the pick-up service using the UBER app.  Read more here ...

As this newsletter went to press, we were awaiting the report on the success of the campaign.
 
Salvos open store number 101 for east coast Australia
 Source Queensland Times
The Salvation Army has opened a new family store at Seventeen Mile Rocks in Brisbane's Centenary suburbs after receiving numerous requests from residents in both Brisbane and Ipswich.

General Manager Salvos Stores Australian Eastern Territory Neville Barrett told guests at the official opening on 9 February, that he was pleased to open the 101st store on the east coast of Australia in response to community requests.

Neville is pictured at right at the opening with Linda Devenish and Major Colin Hopper . Read more here ...

Illegal dumping on charities continues to gain media coverage 
Supporters of the Lifeline charity op shop in Balgowlah, Scott Moran and Anthony Smith deal with dumped and now useless donations. Source: Manly Daily
It is good to see the continued strong media support around Australia promoting community awareness of the huge financial burden and other impacts illegal dumping of rubbish places on charities, opshop staff and volunteers.

Recent examples include:
Bendigo Advertiser : Salvation Army op shop workers 'disgusted' at rubbish dumping
Manly Daily: Donations' of rubbish costing charities hundreds of thousands to take to landfill
Quest Newspapers: Brisbane woman photographs months of  illegal dumping to come up with a solution
Lithgow Mercury: Salvos charity bins the target of callous thieves
Frankston Standard Leader: Carrum Downs Salvation Army gutted after thieves steal $12,000 worth of items including trailer 
 
Finishing on a happy note ...
Source Fairfax Media. Photographer Justin McManus
Fairfax media's Daniella Miletic tells the story of "a clever volunteer at a Brunswick opportunity shop who pulls a painting out of the store's 'giving bin' and is taken aback by how beautiful it is."

On investigation, the painting Spearhead Dreaming, signed by ochre artist Marcia Purdie, was valued by an auction house at $1800.

"What I think was really amazing is that this beautiful donation will go to helping our community ... and we are trying to honour this beautiful donation that someone has given us to help the community and people in need," says Vinnies' Brunswick op shop manager Shauna Patterson. 

Pictured at right, Carmel Miller shows off the painting donated to the Vinnies Sydney Rd Brunswick op shop.

Read the full story here ...
 
 

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