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Green Cleaning Workshops
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[This page maintained by Waste Education & Research Officer - Last updated 22 Jul 2008.]
"It's not just the volume of waste to be reduced; it's the toxicity also."
This hands-on practical, informative and fun workshop is designed to encourage people to rethink their attitudes and behaviours towards the use of chemical cleaning agents in and around the home and to show how easy it is to use non-toxic cleaning practices and still get great results in everyday housecleaning. As consumers, each one of us has the power to make a contribution to a healthier future for our planet, and leave a lighter footstep.
For bookings
contact the Eastern Suburbs Community College on 9387 7400 or
www.escc.nsw.edu.au
For further information on course content please contact Council's Waste
Policy and Education Officer on 9369 8000
Course details
All workshop participants should bring two small jars or bottles,
to take home samples of
green cleaning products they make.
Objectives
- To allow workshop participant to see that waste avoidance/minimisation is not just volume, its toxicity also.
- To realise that we don’t need a different chemical cleaning agent for each job.
- To understand the affect on our family’s heath using chemical cleaning products.
- Question…How clean is clean?
- To ask, "Does advertising make us believe that chemical cleaning products are safe?"
- Not to go home and throw out all the chemical cleaning agents from under the sink at once, but to change to one natural green cleaning method at a time.
- To become conscious of the need to live in harmony with nature and not against it.
Learning outcomes
- To learn how to make simple, effective and cheap cleaning alternatives.
- To know how using non toxic cleaning solutions rather than chemical cleaning agents, improves your family's health.
- To learn why Bacteria are important to us!
- To realise that every little bit counts.
- To know what "biodegradable" written on the packaging of chemical cleaning products actually means?
- Hands on demonstration of how quick and easy it is to make general cleaning recipes (you've probably got the ingredients in your pantry now) and participants get to take home their samples.