Rotary Club of Caulfield

ROTARY CLUB OF CAULFIELD-GRASSROOTS ECO-PROJECTS

The Rotary Club of Caulfield has had a strong sustainability focus for quite some years as demonstrated by the success of Club projects, for example:

Community Recycling Centre - 1997

Operation of a weekend Community Recycling Centre at disused Municipal Depot until the Council required the site for sale.

“Green Loans Explained”

Public Information Session Hosted by the club earlier this year, the session dealt with:

  • Financial arrangements involved in the Federal Government’s new Green Loans
  • Domestic Environmental Assessments
  • Technical options available for making your home more eco-friendly

GreenClean Laundry Balls

The most recent Club endeavour has been selling GreenClean Laundry Balls at Community Markets and Festivals. The benefits of this partnership have been two-fold:

Eco-Benefits of using the Laundry Balls:

  • Detergent, soap and perfume free
  • Water and energy savers as no rinse cycle is needed
  • Can be used in both top and front load washing machines.
  • Can be used for hand washing-useful when travelling or camping.
  • Reusable and refillable- reduces the amount of packaging that goes into landfill.
  • At only $14.95 per ball with one set of refills providing approximately 90 x 3kg washes, they are economical and eco-friendly.

Community Benefits of the Rotary Club of Caulfield selling GreenClean Laundry Balls:

  • 100% of the sales proceeds go to local and international environmental projects
  • Currently, the Club has a “2-for-1” Project whereby for every two laundry balls sold, the Rotary Club of Caulfield will donate one laundry ball to the Rotary Club of Bendigo’s “Safe Water Saves Lives” Project in Samoa.
  • The Club anticipates extending the GreenClean Laundry Ball Project to rural areas in Australia as a water savings initiative and is keen to partner with interested Rotary Clubs in such areas.


"President-Elect, Rotary Club of Bendigo presenting the
President, Rotary Club of Apia (Samoa) with the first
of the Greenclean landry Balls donated by the Rotary Club of Caulfield."