Smarter, Cleaner, Greener - June 2019

Have Your Say | Wildlife Protection Areas

The City of Ryde is home to many unique native animals including echidnas, wallabies and powerful owls to name a few. To help protect vulnerable native wildlife and their habitats, it is proposed to declare Wildlife Protection Areas in three high conservation bushland corridors.

You can have your say on the proposal to declare Wildlife Protection Areas at Field of Mars Reserve, Terrys Creek corridor and Kittys Creek corridor.

Consultation closes on Tuesday 18 June 2019.

2019 Sustainable Waste 2 Art Prize | Now Open

Back for its ninth year, the City of Ryde's annual Sustainable Waste 2 Art Prize (SWAP) is a chance to express your creativity through reimagining the artistic potential of rubblish and recycled materials.

Get inspired at one of our free workshops. Make an artwork, and submit it for consideration in the SWAP exhibition. There's $4,500 in prize money up for grabs across five categories.

Have Your Say | Sustainability Festival

Did you attend the recent Sustainability Festival at Putney Park? We hope you enjoyed the workshops, kids activities, freebies and stalls - designed to help our community live a more sustainable and plastic-free lifestyle!

We want your feedback! Please complete our short survey via the button below and let us know what you loved and what can be improved for future events.

View photos from the event here.

Responsible Cafés

Over 3 billion disposable coffee cups are used in Australia each year. Most of them can’t be recycled and end up in landfill or worse still, in our waterways.

Responsible Cafés, a not-for-profit initiative, encourages positive behaviour change by incentivising coffee and tea lovers to bring their own reusable cup to participating cafés and restaurants to receive a discounted cuppa. The City of Ryde currently has 99 venues signed up so it’s easy to do your bit for the environment.

We’re always on the lookout for more keen beans to join the Responsible Café movement, so why not speak to your favourite local café about getting involved or if you're a café owner, sign up now.

Edible Garden Trail

The Sydney Edible Garden Trail is a celebration of the myriad of ways that Sydney residents are creating food security, saving money and the environment, while enjoying the health benefits of home grown fruit and veg.

Backyard growers, large and small, will open their gardens to the public on the third weekend of March 2020 sharing their passion and knowledge to inspire self-reliance.

If you would like to showcase your garden, we’d love to hear from you.

Keep Australia Beautiful NSW Awards

Sustainability champions who have worked to reduce litter and encourage recycling through the NSW Return and Earn scheme could win one of two new $5,000 prizes in the 2019 Keep Australia Beautiful NSW Sustainable Cities and Sustainable Communities – Tidy Towns Awards.

City of Ryde encourages our schools, community groups and sporting associations to enter and be recognised for the great work you’ve been doing to help keep our local environment clean.

Entries close on 8 July and you’ve got to be in it to win it so why not have a go!

Upcoming Events

• Wed 10 July: SWAP Workshop - From Plastic To Fantastic [Book Now]
• Sat 13 July: SWAP Workshop - Mixed Media Magic [Book Now]
• Wed 17 July: SWAP Workshop - Junk Bugs [Book Now]
• Sat 20 July: SWAP Workshop - Found Object Figures [Book Now]
• Sat 20 July: Plastic-Free Life Workshop [Book Now]
• Tue 23 July: Your Waste Adventure [Book Now]
• Sun 28 July: National Tree Day [Learn More]