our commitment

Environmental Initiatives at Camp Creative

Bellingen is an amazingly beautiful and unique place!

The team at Camp Creative is dedicated to implementing waste reduction initiatives wherever we can.

Public event booth with Ozgreen canopy and waste sorting bins, including red for landfill, black for compost, yellow for recycling, and black tub for specific items. A person is smiling next to the bins, wearing a high-visibility vest.

We need you to help us achieve this too, this is how you can help:

  • Please use the correct rubbish and recycling bins

  • Bring your own reusable coffee cup

  • Bring your own refillable drink bottle

  • Bring your own reusable utensils for lunches

  • Keep classroom doors and windows closed while air-conditioning is on

 It is these little things that add up to a lot if everyone pitches in!

Colorful reusable coffee cups stacked on a wooden table, featuring various colors and designs, with "Emp Creative" printed on the sleeves.

waste reduction with ozgreen

Rubbish Sorting Done Right!

At Camp Creative 2024, we teamed up with legends at OzGreen for the first time and it was a huge success!

They managed waste at our Party in the Park event, check out these stats:

80% waste redirected from landfill

120L 10c recycle items collected

440L compostable items (straight to northbank community gardens!)

300L co-mingled recycling collected

240L landfill waste collected

1100L total waste counted

You can read the full report about their impact on our event here.

Their Rethink Waste program has seen great success at several other local events such as the

Thrive Festival and the Bellingen Agricultural Show.

You can find out more about OzGreen and the amazing work they do here.

People at a recycling station with a bin, engaging in conversation at an outdoor event.
Two people at a recycling booth with signs for black bin compost and yellow bin recycling, in an outdoor setting.
Logo featuring 'OzGREEN' text in green above a light blue circle with a light bulb icon, accompanied by 'Rethink Waste' text, followed by the tagline 'Changing habits to change the world.'
Person sitting beside a composting bin marked with a 'Help close the loop' sign, wearing a black hat and shirt with the word 'Rethink', smiling at an outdoor event.
Person standing next to three wheeled trash bins with different colored lids outdoors, smiling and gesturing towards them.

single-use plastics

Coffee for Climate

In Bellingen, there’s a movement that’s phasing out single-use coffee cups.

Think it’s a good idea? Get involved!

When you’re in the village looking for a takeaway coffee, keep an eye out for our town-wide Mug Library.

Choose a cup off the shelf, order your favourite coffee, then wander up the street or even jump in your car.

Empty cups can be dropped off at the Camp Creative office, or at any participating cafe, where they’ll be commercially cleaned and returned to the Mug Library. 

You can check out Coffee for Climate in the news here, and here.

See how the Bellingen Council is onboard and local events are loving the initiative too!

Illustration of hands holding a coffee cup with the Earth inside, captioned "It Takes a Village, Coffee for Climate."
Smiling person holding a floral ceramic mug and a green reusable coffee cup with a "coffee for climate" tag.