Resource Work Cooperative
Exciting employment opportunity at Resource! PDF Print E-mail
Resource Work Cooperative Coordinator P/PT (25 hrs/wk)
 
The Resource Board of Management is seeking a unique individual to step into an exciting position within our expanding, dynamic and successful worker-owned and operated non-profit cooperative. 

Resource requires the successful applicant to coordinate its waste minimisation business, including operations at South Hobart Tip Shop and Resource Collectables.

Previous management experience in a consensus based community organisation is highly desirable. More info is available here.

Position descriptions and selection criteria are available from Resource: 117 Elizabeth Street, Hobart or phone (03) 6234 3772. 

Written applications addressing the selection criteria should be sent to:
The Board of Management
GPO Box 1092
Hobart 7001 

Applications close 5pm Friday 24th September 2010
Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 August 2010 13:24 )
 
Resource Wins Two Major Awards for Deconstruction Project PDF Print E-mail
Almost half of our team: Jesse, Jacob, Will, Karl, Lee, Tim, Andy, Shayne, Clare, Claire, Eva, Shar & RobAlmost half of our team: Jesse, Jacob, Will, Karl, Lee, Tim, Andy, Shayne, Clare, Claire, Eva, Shar & Rob
 
Resource Work Cooperative is pleased to announce they are the winners of the Small Business Sustainability Award category and the special overall Ministers Award for Environmental Excellence in the Tasmanian Awards for Environmental Excellence 2010 judged by Environment Protection Agency Tasmania revealed at Wrest Point in Hobart, Tasmania last Friday night.
 
 David O'Byrne (Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage) presents the Ministers Special AwardDavid O'Byrne (Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage) presents the Ministers Special Award
 
Both these awards were achieved for the Brisbane Street Deconstruction Project undertaken by Resource and completed earlier this year. It was fantastic recognition of all the hard work that made the project such a fantastic success. The project proved in practical terms that good environmental decisions can also be good decisions for business and local employment!
 
Tim Hankey (Deconstruction Project Manager) receives the Small Business Sustainability AwardTim Hankey (Deconstruction Project Manager) receives the Small Business Sustainability Award

Resource Work Cooperative would also like to congratulate:
 
 
More photos can be seen here
  
All photographs taken by Simon de Salis and used, with thanks, by permission of the Environment Protection Agency Tasmania.  
 
  
Last Updated ( Saturday, 14 August 2010 08:46 )
 
Resource invites you to Art From Trash 2010 PDF Print E-mail

 

Resource Work Cooperative invites you to its annual community art exhibition, Art From Trash! 

Opening night is Friday 23rd July from 6-8pm at Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania.

 

The exhibition will be open 10am - 5pm, Thursday 22nd July until Monday 2nd August. For more information follow the link above to our website, or check us out on Facebook

Last Updated ( Saturday, 17 July 2010 10:28 )
 
Deconstructing 40 Brisbane Street PDF Print E-mail

Resource Work Cooperative recently completed a major deconstruction and recycling project in Hobart. 98% of all materials from the demolition of a large warehouse and former whaler’s cottage were saved from ending up as landfill. Most of these materials will be used later this year in the building of a new School’s Together Sustainability Centre in Mount Nelson.

 Resource on siteResource on site

Instead of adopting a traditional destructive approach to demolition, reliant on heavy machinery and few workers, the buildings were dismantled by hand. This process of deconstruction, although slower, created 12 jobs over the 3-month project while allowing the processing and reuse of an enormous volume and variety of materials.

As a small snapshot of what was saved, this included:

 

- 15,000 convict era bricks (to be reused at the Port Arthur Convict Farm)

- a further 100+ tons of red solid bricks

- over 4000 linear metres of hardwood

- over 900 linear metres of softwood

- a complete 1840s timber staircase, as well as a 5 metre steel staircase

- over 300m of steel I-beams

- heritage pit sawn timbers and floorboards, as well as hand picked sandstone

- fittings including toilets, sinks, lights, plugs, telephones, etc.

- 400 kilograms of copper wiring & 150 kilos of lead were recycled

- Over 170m2 floorboards

- Over 600m2 roof tin

- even coins from 1826 & 1827 

 

Resource, based its approach on the “Waste Hierarchy” (reduce, reuse, recycle), concentrating on reusing materials first. However, where this was not possible materials were recycled (i.e. copper from electrical wiring, broken bricks as road base and leftover timbers i.e. due to rot as compost).

Resource Work Cooperative worked in collaboration with Morrison & Breytenbach Architects, the Department of Education and the Department of Housing to achieve exemplary environmental outcomes. 

For more info contact, Project Coordinator  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 09 June 2010 18:37 )
 
Don’t Dump It, Donate It! PDF Print E-mail

Have you got an old mobile phone sitting around in a drawer at home?

Heaps of discarded mobile phonesHeaps of discarded mobile phones

Not sure what to do with it? It is estimated that Tasmanians have already amassed around 600,000 unused phones (and more every day!) and it is essential that these do not end up in landfill.

Mobile phones contain a cocktail of highly toxic chemicals, which can leach from decomposing waste in landfills, and seep into ground water, contaminate  the soil, and enter the food chain. Not good! 

Cerebral Palsy Tasmania is raising money through the Aussie Recycling Program to collect these unused mobile phones and send them for recycling. For each mobile phone you donate Cerebral Palsy receives $5!

So, you are not only doing the right thing for the environment, you are helping to raise money to support people with disabilities in Tasmania. All money raised in Tasmania, stays in Tasmania.

 

RESOURCE WORK COOPERATIVE IS AIMING TO RAISE $10,000 FOR CEREBRAL PALSY BY COLLECTING 2,000 UNUSED MOBILE PHONES.

 

Please tell your family, friends, school and work colleges about this challenge!

 

Mobile phones can be donated at the South Hobart Tip Shop and the Collectables Shop in the CBD.

 

Thank you for your support!

Last Updated ( Thursday, 16 October 2008 20:02 )
 

Opening Hours

Resource Work

Cooperative Office

GPO Box 1092

Hobart, TAS 7001

Phone: 03 6234 3772

Fax: 03 6234 4644

Monday-Friday 10:00-5:00

 

Resource Tip Shop

McRobies Gully Waste Management Centre

McRobies Road, South Hobart

Phone: 03 6224 8669

Monday-Friday 8:00-4:00

Saturday-Sunday 9:00-4:00

 

Resource Collectables

117 Elizabeth Street

(one block north of the mall)

Hobart CBD

Phone: 03 6231 4838

Monday-Saturday 10:00-5:00

Sunday closed