Following the success of our ‘Bag It’ screening (all about plastic), TTG is proud to present our next movie FRESH – all about FOOD! Something we’re all interested in 🙂
Please join us for an afternoon matinee, followed by discussion and action planning over a cuppa.
Please download the poster and distribute.
I saw renowned environmental author Paul Hawken speak the other night at the City of Canning. Paul is best known for his books on sustainable business approaches, particularly The Ecology of Commerce. For example, this book was credited by Interface carpet CEO Ray Anderson with inspiring him to reinvent how carpet’s were manufactured and sold. The result for Interface was drastically reduced environmental impacts while still doubling profits. See Ray’s TED talk.
However, Paul was here talking about his recent book Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History is Restoring Grace, Justice and Beauty to the World. As the sub-title suggests, the book is about the origins, history and characteristics of the ongoing rise of grassroots groups working to address issues of social justice and the environment.
The book sprung out of Paul’s realisation that there were a multitude of groups working on such issues, and wanting to find out how many there were? His initial estimate of 100 000 soon turned to 500 000 and then 1 million. Now he suggests there are over 2 million groups working for change around the World!
TT Guildford is part of a big community 🙂
Here’s a video where he covers part of his speech from the night.
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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…..
Posted in Waste & Recycling
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