Go Greener
Follow up from Environment Week activities
The “gold coin donation” hot chocolates in keep cups, raised $517.00. This money is going to BeTreed and organisation working on saving 6,400 hectares of rainforest in the north of Cambodia. Ben and Sharyn are working with the Cambodian Government and the local community to protect and preserve this wilderness. Thank you for your generous support.
The eco fair in the Secondary School was successful in raising awareness in environmentally friendly products as alternatives to things we use every day. Popular items included hair ties, colourful bamboo toothbrushes, metal straws and washable cotton pads for applying and removing make up. Thank you to Dr Radford for organising this.
About 10 Primary and Secondary students went on the tour of the environmental facilities at SCEGGS. Many students were not able to attend due to House Music rehearsals and we will be running this again in Term 3. Thank you to Mr Stevenson for taking the time to do this with the students.
Plastic Free July
Did you know that from 1 July it will be illegal for companies to export unsorted mixed bundles of waste plastics from Australia? As a result, the waste industry has been spending millions of dollars to set up the infrastructure for us to processing our plastic waste here into pellets or flakes. From July 2022, this is the only type of plastic we will be able to export.
From a consumer point of view, the bigger issue is getting manufacturers to stop producing low grade plastic which cannot be recycled. We find this as packaging on our supermarket shelves.
What can you do? You can take the challenge and sign up to be part of Plastic free July at the following address https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/ This organisation has been going since 2011 and last year millions of people worldwide were part of the solution to plastic waste by changing their behaviours.
The impact report from Plastic Free July 2020 can be found here.
Empower yourself. Do something positive for the environment and see how much plastic you can avoid buying in July!
Sue Zipfinger
Maailma Environment Committee
