I found the town I would happily move to. Denham was a last minute decision to go to after realising that Coral bay was too far to drive to within a week for a roadtrip with my sister and my kids.
It ticked so many boxes for me. Firstly it was quiet ✅ had calm ocean water ✅ beautiful shells to ogle ✅
There is a boomerang bag initiative to replace plastic bag usage ✅ boxes in the local IGA grocery shop to put groceries in if you forget your cloth bag ✅ a tiny selection of bulk snacks in the local IGA ✅
A “War on waste” op shop where locals and tourists can donate any good condition items with the proceeds going back into the community ✅
Park benches made of upcycled plastic ✅
Gordon Peters park on the foreshore is giant wooden nautical themed playground the kids loved, the giant slide is super fast (I tore a hole in my jeans knees trying to slow myself lol).The pirate ship is made out of recycled jetty timber ✅
Denham (the town site) is has its own power supply and is powered by wind turbines and diesel generators. Remote properties utilise diesel and renewable energy and battery storage systems ✅.
The town is committed to reducing waste and packaging as currently there is no recycling facility (whatever packaging I acquired here I brought home to recycle), but future plans include a small "Recycling bring centre" where people can drop off sorted recyclable's into glass bottles, glass jars, rinsed plastic bottles (number 1 plastic), rinsed milk bottles (number 2 plastic), aluminium cans, clean cardboard, clean paper and clean newspaper. All of these will be baled and transported back to Perth to recycle✅.
For a small town there definitely lies a green heart in there.
Happy Sundays friends!
Grace
