July is all about plastics. Or more correctly, it’s about NO plastics!
This month marks the start of Australia’s world-first ban on the export of mixed plastic waste.
Our waste export ban is not only world leading, it is also growing businesses and creating jobs in Australia, while protecting the world’s rivers and oceans from pollution.
The export ban is great news for those businesses who are involved in recycling because it means around 75,000 tons of additional mixed plastic waste per year will stay in Australia to be reused for manufacturing in Australia or sent to other supply chains as a valuable resource.
Closer to home, it’s Plastic Free July.
This is a global movement dedicated to reducing our use of single-use plastics so we can have cleaner streets and oceans and beautiful communities.
The Plastic Free July website (www.plasticfreejuly.org) has a ton of ideas for reducing plastic use and reducing our global footprint.
Or if want to try a more radical approach you might want to look at joining the Buy Nothing Project – locally-focussed groups where you can post anything you want to give away, lend or share and ask for anything you’d like to receive for free or borrow.
The Logan Central/Slacks Creek/Woodridge/Kingston Buy Nothing Project Facebook group is here: facebook.com/groups/819615662099280
If you just want to give without receiving – take a look at Givit (www.givit.org.au) – a platform set up for people to donate specific items to people needing assistance.
Do you have a spare tv? There is someone in Logan Central who lives with PTSD, is physically disabled, isolated and living alone and looking for one. Or a mobile phone you don’t use any more? Vulnerable women in Beenleigh would appreciate it.
Re-use, recycle and reduce. There are so many ways to get this done.
