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Article #191Re: Clean Up Australia
From: Terryc
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:43
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:43
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John Henderson wrote: > sam singer wrote: > >> Clean Up Australia, one of Australia's greatest environmental >> initiatives, is now running a blog to keep you updated with current >> issues and tips to manage your impact on the environment. Of course it >> also links to the official website where you can register for this >> year's event. >> >> http://cleanupaustralia.wordpress.com/ > > With few exceptions, cleaning up is more about neatness and > appearance, and much less about the environment. > > As my physics professsor said in a lecture 35 years ago, in > general the most enviromentally responsible thing you can do > with garbage is to just discard it where you've finished with > it. Not that I do, but he's right. Spot on. Ignoring my fetish for old IT technology, most of our garbage leaves the house in a bucket to get dumped into the cubic metre compos bin. Lucky to have a plastic shopping bag full of other items each week. Now, if I could find a cheap, easy way of shredding all the tree based product that arrives, mostly via the mail box, it too would join the compost bins.
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