City of Stonnington and EFFA present:
The Clean Bin Project
A World Environment Day celebration.
The Clean Bin Project.
A special World Environment Day event.
5 June 2018, Palace Cinema Como
Presented in partnership with City of Stonnington
What’s happening.
Watch an award winning documentary, chat with a panel of inspiring local zero-waste experts and munch on movie snacks – all on World Environment Day.
The Environmental Film Festival Australia and City of Stonnington are delighted to join forces on World Environment Day - Tuesday June 5 - to host a screening of the award-winning documentary, The Clean Bin Project.
The Clean Bin Project follows a couple who swear off consumerism and compete to produce the least garbage. Following the screening enjoy a Q&A session with the Rogue Ginger (aka Erin Rhoads), Eva Mackinley (founder of The Last Straw), and social entrepreneur Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald.
The Film.
A competition where less is more.
Is it possible to live completely waste-free? In this multi-award winning, festival favourite, partners Jen and Grant go head to head in a competition to see who can swear off consumerism and produce the least garbage Their light-hearted competition is set against a darker examination of the problem waste. Even as Grant and Jen start to garner interest in their project, they struggle to find meaning in their minuscule influence on the large-scale environmental impacts of our “throw-away society”. Described as An Inconvenient Truth meets Super Size Me, The Clean Bin Project features laugh out loud moments, stop motion animations, and unforgettable imagery. Captivating interviews with renowned artist, Chris Jordan and TED Lecturer Captain Charles Moore, make this film a fun and inspiring call to individual action that speaks to crowds of all ages.
The Speakers.
Erin Rhoads.
Erin Rhoads is the person behind The Rogue Ginger, one of Australia's popular zero-waste blogs. Erin has been writing about her plastic free and zero waste journey since 2013. Through her pursuit to live plastic free and zero waste, Erin learnt to eat real food, discovered new skills, cut down her exposure to harmful chemicals, found joy in moments over things and simplified her life, while saving money.
A sought-after speaker and community activist, Erin is on a mission to engage with individuals, business and government to redefine what is waste and how we can create less of it.
Featured by BBC World, The Project, Sunrise, The Morning Show, The Age, The Guardian, Sunday Times, Vogue, Marie Claire, Women's Weekly, Huffington Post and is a fortnightly sustainability contributor on ABC Radio.
She lives in Naarm (Melbourne) with her zero waste family.
Eva Mackinley.
Eva Mackinley aims to change the use of plastic drinking straws in venues across Australia. She works with businesses and communities to reduce the number of straws being used and helps them transition to a reusable alternative.
Since Eva began The Last Straw in 2015, she has encouraged around 1000 Australian venues to change their straw use – saving about 20 million plastic straws from entering the waste system. Her achievements have inspired a network of eco-warriors from around the globe to become advocates in their own communities.
Before launching The Last Straw, Eva was a director of Global Partners for Changes, a program that supports young Kenyans to create social change in their communities.
She was the first Tasmanian Ambassador for the 2014 One Young World Summit held in Dublin, and a youth delegate to the 2013 Rotary International Peace Conference. Eva is a 2020 General Sir John Monash Scholar and Rotary Peace Fellow.
Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald.
Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald is Australia’s leading clothes-mending practitioner. Her mending has been displayed in art exhibitions in Melbourne and Adelaide and she teaches workshops across Australia.
Erin began her career in journalism at 15 and over two decades worked as an editor, sub-editor, writer, and photographer. After leaving journalism she founded Bright Sparks, a social enterprise that repaired and reused electrical appliances to keep them out of landfill. When she’s not trying to save the planet (stylishly), you can find her making tiny dioramas for her magic letterbox or cooking up a storm for her cookbook club, the Ottolenghi Appreciation Society. Her retirement dream is to run a deluxe toy hospital for stuffed toys.
Location
Palace Cinema Como.
299A Toorak Road
South Yarra
Victoria 3141