Reverse
Garbage
Choose to reuse. Reverse Garbage is Australia's largest creative reuse centre — rescuing industrial materials, inspiring communities, and proving that one person's waste is another's creative goldmine.
Waste Is Just a
Resource Out of Place
Starting from a small project in the 1970s, Reverse Garbage has grown into Australia's largest creative reuse centre — a trusted institution for reducing waste, inspiring creativity, and empowering communities to think differently about materials.
Located in Sydney and proudly backed by local councils, Reverse Garbage diverts hundreds of thousands of kilos from landfill each year, making those materials available to artists, makers, educators, and community groups.
Australia's largest creative reuse centre — a warehouse packed with rescued industrial materials, off-cuts, and surplus goods available for artists, makers, teachers, and the community.
Reverse Garbage runs hands-on workshops and education programs that teach communities to think creatively about waste, sustainability, and reuse.
Choose to Reuse
Creative Reuse Shop
Australia's largest creative reuse centre — a warehouse packed with rescued industrial materials, off-cuts, and surplus goods available for artists, makers, teachers, and the community.
Education & Workshops
Reverse Garbage runs hands-on workshops and education programs that teach communities to think creatively about waste, sustainability, and reuse.
Community Giving
They provide materials at low or no cost to community groups, schools, and nonprofits — making creativity and sustainability accessible to everyone.
Sustainability Mission
From a small project in the 1970s, Reverse Garbage has grown into Australia's most trusted creative landfill diversion organisation, shaping decades of reuse culture.
How SYS & Reverse Garbage
Work Together
Your forgotten storage unit becomes someone's creative material. Here's exactly how the chain works.
SYS Clears Your Unit
We carefully sort through your storage unit, identifying items with reuse or upcycling potential — materials, furniture, tools, off-cuts, and more.
Materials Are Assessed
Usable industrial materials, craft supplies, and unique items are catalogued and set aside for handover to Reverse Garbage's collection.
Reverse Garbage Rescues
Items are absorbed into their creative reuse centre, made available to artists, makers, schools, and community organisations.
Zero to Landfill
What would have been dumped gets a creative second life — and you walk away knowing your unit cleared with purpose, not just a skip bin.
Creativity Meets Sustainability
“We inspire and support people, artists, crafters and teachers to consume less, reuse more, save money — and feel good doing it.”
Clear your unit.
Fuel someone's next project.
When SYS clears your storage unit, the materials that matter go straight to Reverse Garbage — where artists, makers, and community groups give them a brilliant new life.
