National Recycling Week, established by Planet Ark in 1996,is held every year in November.
This year it will be held from the 10th to 16th November 2025. The National Recycling Week theme this year is: JOIN THE CYCLE.
Join your community and get involved in resources, tools, and events that will help your sustainable impact. It's all about quality over quantity, it is not about recycling more, but recycling better.
Check out TAFE NSW Libraries' resources to help you recycle, and let's work towards zero waste together.
Have check our TAFE NSW Sustainability Hubs, Sustainability, and Diploma of Sustainable Practice LibGuides yet?
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TAFE NSW Sustainability Hubs have been set up in eight libraries across the state to support sustainability initiatives and promote sustainable practices both in the workplace and at home. The Hubs:
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Sustainability Hubs offer TAFE NSW Library Services the opportunity to promote local, national and worldwide sustainability events along with library print and e-resources. Check out their beautiful World Environment Day display in June 2025 delivered as part of the Grafton Sustainability Hub.
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Sustainability Hubs offer TAFE NSW Library Services the opportunity to provide a collection point for 'tricky to recycle' items that would otherwise end up in landfill. Sustainability Hubs may collect items such as medication blister packs, bread tags, batteries and much more.
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Sustainability Hubs provide a space for TAFE NSW to build awareness of TAFE NSW initiatives, promote library resources on sustainability, deliver local recycling and sustainability information for staff, students and community visitors.
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Sustainability Hubs offer TAFE NSW Library Services the opportunity to provide a collection point for 'tricky to recycle' items that would otherwise end up in landfill. Sustainability Hubs may collect items such as medication blister packs, bread tags, batteries and much more.
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Sustainability Hubs offer TAFE NSW Library Services the opportunity to promote local, national and worldwide sustainability events along with library print and e-resources. Check out their Buy Nothing New month display for October 2025.
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Sustainability Hubs offer TAFE NSW Library Services the opportunity to provide a collection point for 'tricky to recycle' items that would otherwise end up in landfill. Sustainability Hubs may collect items such as medication blister packs, bread tags, batteries and much more.
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Sustainability Hubs offer TAFE NSW Library Services the opportunity to promote local, national and worldwide sustainability events along with library print and e-resources. Library services staff can deliver Sustainability Hub sessions in classroom or the library for students and staff wanting to learn more about living and working sustainably. Ask a helpful TAFE NSW library staff member for more information about these sessions.
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Sustainability Hubs provide a space for TAFE NSW to build awareness of TAFE NSW initiatives, promote library resources on sustainability, deliver local recycling and sustainability information for staff, students and community visitors. The Hubs also provide space to deliver innovative services supporting sustainability. Check out Wagga Wagga's amazing turnout of staff and students for the seed library launch held in August 2025.
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In 2023 TAFE NSW Facilities Management rolled out internal waste recycling stations. The recycling stations generally include a general waste bin (red), a paper and cardboard recycling bin (blue) and a commingled recycling bin (yellow). In the future a food recycling bin (green) will also be available in communal kitchens.
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In September, with the support of students and staff, TAFE NSW Library Services raised a record breaking amount of $6,205.00 for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) Great Book Swap. Together we are helping to keep language alive and reduce our carbon footprint by repurposing books and other pre-loved items.
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