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ECO-Buy Award. Green Supplier of the Year 2010
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ECO-Buy Award. Green Supplier of the Year 2010
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Going Green Solutions has won the prestigious ECO-Buy Green Supplier of the Year for 2010. The award was presented by Bernie Hobbs, a popular judge on ABC Television’s New Inventors program at the Malthouse last week This is the second year of the ECO-Buy awards. The not-for-profit group is funded by the Department of Sustainability and Environment and Sustainability Victoria to encourage uptake of environmental purchasing. Already, Going Green Solutions is one of Victoria’s largest suppliers of biodegradable, compostable catering ware and has supplied many of Melbourne’s major event companies including the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, The Big Group and Domaine Chandon Winery.
Going Green is a preferred supplier on the ECO-Green database that offers a comprehensive online directory of independently assessed green products. Thanks to all our customers for your support and commitment to supporting the environment.
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We are in the process of updating our website (yes it has been a long time coming). Those of you who are regular visitors may find that the site displays a little oddly at first and we recommend that you hit the refresh icon. Many of the newer products that we have included in our range over the last few months are now available for purchase on line.
If you have any questions about the changed appearance of the site or how to find the products you usually purchase give us a call or send us an email. With the next installment we will provide a more streamlined shopping cart and offer dropdown menus to make colour/design/flavour selections that much easier. In the meantime additional specifications can be added to the info field on the cart page.
To be able to provide the best possible assistance to our - generally well informed and educated - customers, Sean and I like to stay as educated as we can too. This means attending workshops on sustainable living, the 'New Green Economy', and includes the 'Home Sustainability Assessor' training Lucinda is about to embark on. She expects to learn heaps of great information about making homes more sustainable, so if you need advice or to book a home audit, please don’t hesitate to ask.
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Feb 09: SLF, nappy workshops, and grape grazing!
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Feb 09: SLF, nappy workshops, and grape grazing!
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- Going Green Solutions will be showcasing our vast array of sustainable wares at the Sustainable Living Festival at Federation Square/Birrarung Marr from Friday 20th of February to Sunday the 22nd. The festival times are from 10am-6pm (Fri and Sat.) and 10am-5pm Sunday. The festival is free to attend but tickets can also be prurchased as a donation to the Sustainable living foundation through the SLF web site.
- The 1st re usable nappy workshop for the year will be taking place at the Diamond Valley Library on Friday the 6th of February at 10am. Bookings can be made by calling Dominique on 9433 3111. These work shops are run by Lucinda and Dominique (Nillumbik Council) Morning tea is provided.
- Going Green Solutions has donated 560 x 100% post consumer recycled Doggy doo bags to the Beagle Rescue Society of Victoria to help ease the strain on families adopting un wanted beagles.
- Going Green Solutions has been busy supplying the summer festivals with biodegradable catering ware and will be supplying a number of wineries at the Yarra Valley Grape Grazing Festival to help them to have a more sustainable festival.
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Sept 08: Proud finalists for two different business awards!
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Sept 08: Proud finalists for two different business awards!
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We are very proud to be finalists in both the 2008 Australian Home Based Business Awards, and the Leader Business Achiever Awards. Here is a picture of our happy faces - thankyou to those who nominated us!
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Sept 08: The three local businesses nominated for the Home Based Business Awards
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Sept 08: The three local businesses nominated for the Home Based Business Awards
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We were one of three local businesses nominated for the Home Based Business Awards…congratulations also to Rosie Murphy from Virtually Yours, and Jenny Clarke from Raising Expectations (who runs the sandwich wrap fundraisers - see our website under 're-usable lunch packaging').
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Sept 08: Sean receives our award!
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Sept 08: Sean receives our award!
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Finalists from around Australia were presented with awards at the Australian Home Based Business Awards ceremony held in August during the Australian Business and IT Expo.
Federal Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy, the Hon. Dr Craig Emerson, presented the Australian Home Based Business Awards Finalist’s Certificate to Sean Flynn of Going Green Solutions.
The awards attracted a diverse representation of the home-based business sector- an industry on the rise with more than 67 per cent of small businesses based in the home. The best-performed businesses in the areas of merchandising, business services, trade services, hospitality / farming and personal services were selected.
Awards Organiser John Gannan said the judges were looking for businesses that showed innovation in each of the five award categories. He said the awards were a great opportunity for small businesses to gain recognition for their products.
"The awards are about recognition, which builds self confidence, self esteem and professionalism. An increase in recognition leads to an increase in business."
John believes that step one is winning the award and the next step is to promote the win to benefit the business.
"If you do nothing, nothing is likely to happen."
People are ditching the traditional workplace and opting to combine lifestyle and work to run their own businesses from home creating a dynamic and diverse network that is shaping the way people go to work.
From traditional trades of plumbers and carpenters to specialized Internet based marketing and giftware operations the diversity of home based business is immense.
Degradable: will fall apart into smaller pieces of the same thing over time
Biodegradable: will be eaten by bio-organisms and turned into organic matter over time
Bio-bags—or are they?Something we hear often in our line of work is ‘we are already using biodegradable bags’. People are then shocked to find out that the ‘bio-bags’ they thought were biodegradable are actually only ‘degradable’, and what's more, are just a plastic bag made from petroleum products, treated with a chemical that makes it degrade (fall apart into smaller pieces of plastic) over an unspecified time. Not really what they thought they were getting?
According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald ('Firm cops bagging over green claims 17/01/2008 by Ben Cubby, Environment reporter), the managing director of Valpak (who make one brand of 'BioBag') said "it was never intended to make people think the bags were biodegradable". Valpak is a plastics company who use an additive developed by the Canadian company EPI to make their plastic bags break down into small plastic shreds over time. Coles Myer was thinking of using the bags but rejected them after it funded tests undertaken at Swinburne University, the results of which showed that the bags did not appear to degrade and faster than standard plastic bags and could take up to 10 years. Researchers also raised concerns about heavy metal (cadmium) added to the bags to help them disintegrate. According to the article, green groups have taken the case of Valpak and it's 'BioBag' to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
However - all is not lost in the department of a truly biodegradable bag. All of the cornstarch bags listed on our website are 100% biodegradable and compostable, as are another brand of BioBag (one made from cornstarch). The key is - if you want to be sure your bags will biodegrade, make sure they state that they are 100% biodegradable - and even better, that they are also 100% compostable, which means that they are biodegradable within a specific time frame (usually 6-10 weeks) under composting conditions. And if you see the words '100% degradable', or the trademark 'EPI' on a bag - then you know that is is simply plastic that has been chemically treated and the only thing it will even break down into is smaller pieces of plastic.
All the bags on our website - from doggy-dunnit size to wheelie bin size are 100% biodegradable and compostable. They are made from Cornstarch, an organic material that reverts back to organic material once biodegradation is complete.
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2008-09: Going Green Solutions and Nillumbik Shire Council join forces to promote reusable nappy options to Nillumbik families
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2008-09: Going Green Solutions and Nillumbik Shire Council join forces to promote reusable nappy options to Nillumbik families
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Reusable nappy projectWe are currently working with Nillumbik Shire Council Waste Operations Department to promote the use of reusable nappies to residents of Nillumbik. In partnership, we have put together reusable nappy packs complete with information and samples nappies, which have been given to all the Maternal and Child Health Centres in Nillumbik for display and to be shown during the new mums information sessions.
We have jointly run two free reusable nappy information sessions for the general public, as well as one session with all the MCHN's within Nillumbik to explain the nappy options available.
If you live in Nillumbik, you can see examples of all the reusable nappies we stock by going to any MCHC and asking to see their display pack.
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2006 / 2007: Tri nature wins award!
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2006 / 2007: Tri nature wins award!
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Tri Nature Pty Ltd becomes an HMA 2006 and 2007 Award Winner:
'Environmental Practice Initiative' and 'Excellence in Environmental Practice'
The full product range developed by this Australian company is available through Going Green Solutions.
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Going Green Solutions is finalist in 2011 EcoBuy Awards
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Going Green Solutions is finalist in 2011 EcoBuy Awards
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Our 100% compostable and biodegradable catering range was featured in the Green Christmas episode of the popular environmental living show 'Make The Switch' on Monday 5th November 8pm, Channel 31. You can see this episode and others direct via their website.
Hours as at October 2011:
Monday - Closed
Tues - Friday 10am until 5pm
Saturday 10am until 2.30pm
Sunday Closed
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TriNature wins another AWARD!
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TriNature wins another AWARD!
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Lucinda has joined the Small Business Victoria workshop leader team
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Lucinda has joined the Small Business Victoria workshop leader team
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Standby Power Control devices (SPC's) FREE to victorian households
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Standby Power Control devices (SPC's) FREE to victorian households
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