Expo puts the focus on Sustainable Living

This Sunday, the Rotary Club of Orange and Orange City Council have teamed up to put the focus on Sustainable Living.

In a first for Orange, Sustainable Living Week 2019 will kick off with an expo and community markets in the Orange Northcourt.

“The Orange Sustainable Living Expo will have a program of events talking about waste,” said John Mills, chairperson of the Rotary Club of Orange’s Sustainable Living Week committee.

“We've managed to get the services of Craig Reucassel, of the ABC's series the War on Waste: He is going to talk about recycling and what's happening in the recycling area -particularly about food waste and soft plastics.

“We have a theatre group that is doing some environmental education, we'll have the council talking about water security and strategies to minimise water use, there’s a company that has developed a wicking bed system for gardens; presentations about how people can better look at their food waste and extract that out of the red bins, and then we've got about 16 specialist exhibitors looking at all things from waste to water, energy and the environment.”

The Expo will run from 9am to 2pm on Sunday 27 October, in conjunction with the Orange Rotary Community Markets.

But the Expo is just the start of a range of activities planned for Sustainable Living Week.

“We have an environmental walk, a guided walk through Ploughman's wetlands,” said John. “We have a workshop on making beeswax wraps, designed to reduce the use of gladwrap, we have a workshop on making native bee hotels, we've got a high schools sustainable cooking competition, and to finalise the week we also have a native vegetation planting out at the Waratah wetlands area.”

Details of the events and a full program is available on the Rotary Club of Orange Facebook page.