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Ouote of the day;

5/31/2017

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No two leaves are alike, and yet there is no antagonism
between them or between the branches on which they grow.

— Mahatma Gandhi
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NOW YOU CAN RECYCLE PLASTIC LIDS!

5/31/2017

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Lids must be removed from bottles and containers before placing in the recycling bin but leaving them loose in your recycling bin means they are often too small to be captured at the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) where recyclables are sorted.
We’ve been told to put these in the waste bin BUT now you can simply collect plastic lids in a milk bottle and once full, loosely place original lid on and place in your recycling bin with a lid on. Sorters at the MRF's will easily be able to identify and sort your milk bottle with lids and recycle it with other mixed and miscellaneous plastics.
NOTE: If your council doesn’t recycle #6 and #7 plastics, collect them separately and take to a friends bin whose council does and prevent it going to landfill waste. www.IRECYCLE.com.au
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Plastic Bags

5/31/2017

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  • The average time that a plastic bag is used for is… 12 minutes.
  • More than 1 million bags are used every minute.
  • Annually approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide.
  • For Australians that’s 10 million a day! Over 3.9 billion plastic checkout bags a year not including the ones in store or used for produce.
  • Over 200,000 plastic checkout bags are dumped in landfills every hour.
  • 50% of the plastic we use, we use just once and throw away.
  • 1 reusable string bag replaces approx. 208 plastic bags each year.
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Quote: Making changes

5/31/2017

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We can choose to be affected by the world
or we can choose to affect the world. 

— Heidi Wills
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