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Clean Up day success

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Transition Town Guildford | 2 comments

Over 40 people came on the 4th of March for Transition Town Guildford’s second Clean Up Australia Day. Many hands make light work, and it was a massive success.

We managed to collect 24 bags of rubbish & 18 bags of recyclables!

Not to mention the numerous oddities as well, such as road cones, bike tires, a number plate, a sewing mannequin and even a NZ passport!

While it was a good sign that there weren’t so many large bulky items as last year, there was still plenty of rubbish to collect. However, it was disappointing to see how much recyclable material there was. Several people brought up the solution of a container deposit. The Conservation Council has an ongoing campaign to introduce a 10 c refund, copying the successful model from South Australia (you can support it here).

Thanks to everyone who came and took part, especially all the kids from Guildford Primary.

Some of the Guildford Primary kids

The final result The end result!

The last hooray 🙂

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Clean Up Aus Day

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Transition Town Guildford | Leave a comment

TTG are doing Clean Up Australia Day again this year

Please come down and help us tidy up the foreshore around the Helena river bridge.

When: Sunday 4th March

Where: Meet at Guildford Primary school, corner of Johnson and Helena

Time: 9 – 11 am

Don’t forget to wear old clothes and bring a hat and water. We’ll have some gloves, but please bring your own if you have some.

You can sign up on the Aus Day site

See you there!

Recycling tips

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Transition Town Guildford | 4 comments

I recently attended a waste and recycling course (Earth Carers), run by the East Metropolitan Region Council (EMRC). The EMRC handles the waste and recycling for several shires, including the City of Swan. As part of the course, we were lucky enough to have a tour of the plant that handles the recycling. It was impressive to see how it worked. But even more impressive was the volume of stuff that comes through!

It was also surprising to see that people are still an integral part of the sorting process, with 20 workers per a shift. So to make it easier and safer for them, as well as improving recycling, here’s a few tips I picked up:

1) Don’t put plastic bags in the recycling bin.

Anything in closed plastic bags will be thrown out. Plus loose plastic bags can clog the machinery. If you want to recycle them, store them up and take them to the Coles or Woolworths recycling bins. Of course, it’s best not to use them in the first place 😉

2) Never put engine oil in the recycling bin

It contaminates everything around it! You can drop off waste oil to Red Hill tip

3) Take the lids off all plastic bottles and containers.

Some can be recycled, but it’s currently best to not put them in the recycling. If the lids are on, it also makes it harder for them to compact the bottles and often means fluids will still be present and will leak everywhere.

These are just the top tips to help the people at the recycling plant. Please post your tips to reduce, reuse and recycling!

Hopefully we can organise a tour of the plant for TTG in the near future. Please email us if you’d be interested in coming along…..

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