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Andrea Persico of Austinmer is collecting these items and putting them into the Illawarra's first "Library of Things" which community members can borrow at any time.
Mrs Persico said the idea was to reduce waste and bring the community together.
"I used to be of the mindset that when I put something in the bin I was just throwing it away and it's gone," she said. "But I've realised now it's not gone, it's sitting somewhere and it's piling up and it will always be there."
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Members would pay a yearly low-cost fee to use the various goods, while there would be provisions for families who may not be able to afford the fee.
"Most items will be free but some items might have a small charge if they need [maintenance like] sharpening," Mrs Persico said.
The library is hoped to be operational by June, though there are two other components to Mrs Persico's greater vision for the Make Do social enterprise.
This includes a "maker space" where people could use things like wood-working tools or a sewing machine; the other idea is a "zero waste cafe".
"I've been a bit of a maker for some time - I went one year sewing all my own clothes, I like knowing how to do things ... but I think the environment focus has really come into my life more in the last three years," she said.
"I've also got children now and I'm horrified to think what sort of world we're leaving them."
Mrs Persico - who also works as a bee keeper - moved to the Illawarra three years ago after living in Italy for nearly a decade. She said much could be learnt from the Europeans regarding food waste, though we were more advanced in other areas of sustainability.
"[They're] terrible in terms of littering, and a lot of population do buy all drinking water in bottles," Mrs Persico said.
"But they also do have more traditional links to being in touch with where their food is coming from, buying fresh at the markets and wasting very little - it's less of a throw away culture."