Looking for ways to zip around Sydney? Look out for e-bicycles Beam. These poppy purple two-wheelers are custom-built for sharing and are an easy and sustainable way to get from A to B. Now that’s something to beam about!

Join forces with fellow residents. This hyper-local reuse economy encourages nearby neighbours to give, receive, lend and borrow anything and everything, freely. Sign-up to your hood and get sharing. Generosity and gratitude lives here.

Splash into savings with Circle Paints! On a mission to save the planet one can of paint at a time, Circle Paint rescues surplus Dulux and other top brand paint from trade projects and sells them at a steal via their online and IRL store. Explore their lolly shop of colours for interiors and exteriors, this is DIY heaven!

Whether you’re looking to slay in designer dresses or keep it chill in splashy trackie dacks, Ekoluv’s got you covered. Set up by a former model who saw first hand the unbecoming impact of farshun on the environment this is a fashion hire must-try.

Looking to car(e)? Evee puts you in the driving seat of an electric car. A city based sharing platform, they’ll connect you with a local EV owner and their wheels. Pick up the vehicle or get it delivered, and get ready to go, go, go on a smooth and quiet ride. Watt are you waiting for?

Put Good2Go Enviro Boxes on your packing list next home move. Sturdy, stackable and easy to transport (no pesky tape or flimsy cardboard), these reusables boxes make moving a breeze. They’ll even drop off and pick up boxes, making the heavy load of moving house a little bit lighter.

Say bye-bye to single-use cups and hey-hey to HuskeeSwap! Made from coffee husk these aesthetic reusable cups can be conveniently exchanged at participating local cafes for a fresh cup with each drink order. No more cleaning your own reuse cup, no more worries when you forget it. Sip, smile, repeat.

Glam Corner is your guilt-free fix for fashion. The rental platform providing you access to designer dresses for a fraction of their retail price. Founded in 2012 with a mission to wage war on fashion waste, this is one to keep up your sleeve for all those special occasions.

A shout out to all you DIYers living within Sydney’s inner west. Join the Inner West Tool Library community and get access to all sorts of handy tools and equipment (the regular, the random, an extension ladder, a dehydrator). This is how to nail it!

Kindershare is the mother marketplace of sharing all things kinder (that’s german for children not the chocolate bars). List your quality baby bits and bobs for hire, or browse, book and borrow from those who’ve listed their gear.

Lime is the world’s largest shared EV company and you’ll find their eco-friendly and electric-fying bikes available for rent round Sydney. Add a twist to your commute by hiring and riding to where you need to go. You know what they say - a lime a day keeps the cars away!

Parties are back! Be the hostess with the mostest; ditch disposables and do reusable plates, bowls, cups and linens. Party Kit Network is a merry band of individuals, businesses and community groups who hire out their reusable party kits. Shindig sorted!

They call it a re-commerce revolution; for the environment, for your wallet. Enlist and hire out your own good wares, or get borrowing good things from others. With a breadth of categories, Releaseit advances the cause to stop buying and start borrowing. Power to the people!

Aussies throw out about 1.6 billion single-use takeaway food containers every year. (How unsavoury!) Get to know the cafes and restaurants who accept and have available reusable mealboxes by Replated. Award-winning in design, this is how to plate up take-away!

Whether it’s a welder, wood saw or whipper snipper this is a power-packed platform for DIYers; a place to connect people needing tools with people with tools. For borrowers, you get your hands on tools without needing to break the bank, and for tool lenders, it’s a way to add to your bank. This is how to get the job done.

The Sydney Library of Things is a not-for-profit service that provides access to extremely useful, but occasionally used thingamajigs - we’re looking at you glue guns, gernis, food dehydrators and bundt cake tins. This is the ultimate sharing resource for makers, fixers and endeavour enthusiasts.

Say goodbye to the days of dreaming of dressing up in designer threads. With a who’s who of Australian designers’ wares, this is a dress hire website which lets you (virtually) raid and rent someone’s else’s fancy closet. We think Anna would approve.

Another interesting conscious consumption concept, Venla is a second-hand fashion store where you can rent-a-rack to resell your best fashion and accessories or get a steal on preloved designer clothes. Sustainable, convenient and oh-so-social.