Zero Waste Festival 2025

Saturday 6th September at Fed Square, Melbourne

Connect with like-minded people, exchange ideas, and build connections while having fun and finding inspiration. Discover practical zero waste options, including innovative new ideas and the revival of older practices like repair and mending, all contributing to a revolution in sustainable living.

Zero Waste Festival 2025

Saturday 6th September at Fed Square, Melbourne

Connect with like-minded people, exchange ideas, and build connections while having fun and finding inspiration. Discover practical zero waste options, including innovative new ideas and the revival of older practices like repair and mending, all contributing to a revolution in sustainable living.

Speakers

Immerse yourself in a journey of inspiration with our engaging and thought-provoking children show, panel discussions, designed to explore innovative and simple ways to reduce waste and motivate us to live more sustainably.

Applications open

Do you align with our values? If you want to get involved fill in one of our application forms.

Activities

Join us for a vibrant lineup of activities such as repairing your things and our popular clothes swap!

Experience fun, interactive ways to embrace sustainability and community at its best. 

Exhibitors

Come along to The Atrium at Fed Square and meet the businesses, social enterprises, groups and communities championing zero waste and sustainability initiatives with information and products designed to help you lower the waste in your life while protecting the environment.

For exhibitor inquiries please email festival@zerowastevictoria.org.au

Food

From crepe to kebab, kombucha to vodka sodas… Discover a range of food and beverage that create social, environmental and cultural good.

Get involved

Sponsorship and Media

For Sponsorship and Media enquiries, please contact events@zerowastevictoria.org.au 

Volunteering

For Volunteering enquiries, please contact us below.

Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece

MESSAGE FROM THE LORD MAYOR OF MELBOURNE

Melbourne takes sustainability seriously and we invite the whole community to help tackle waste. That’s why the Zero Waste Festival is so welcome every year.


The one-day festival offers fun and interactive ways to reduce waste and consumption. From a clothes swap to a repair cafe, or ditching single use plastics through to learning about bees as pollinators and beyond – discover more about sustainability through the great activities. The City of Melbourne is proud to support the Zero Waste Festival. This is community at its best, and we hope to see you at Fed Square for a terrific free family day out.

The Zero Waste Festival 2025 is organised by Zero Waste Victoria in collaboration with event partners City of Melbourne and Fed Square. We are grateful for the support of our sponsors.

Zero Waste Festival 2025

Saturday 6th September at Fed Square, Melbourne

Connect with like-minded people, exchange ideas, and build connections while having fun and finding inspiration. Discover practical zero waste options, including innovative new ideas and the revival of older practices like repair and mending, all contributing to a revolution in sustainable living.