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Hard rubbish day. Sad Planet day.

Hard rubbish day – Min

There’s a week when gawples put out their junk on the pavements for what they call ‘hard rubbish day’.

Sometimes in the twilight when we can’t be seen, we glins fly up and down Melon Street, to look at what is in these huge piles in front of almost every home.

It’s fascinating what they have and don’t want want anymore. We cannot work out why they need so much stuff in the first place, or then once they have it, why they throw it out.

Where does it all go?  My mothers say there are nasty toxic substances in a lot of the rubbish that leach might leach into the soil and destroy the eco-system.

Galine who is good at maths, tried to multiply it’s volume by all the homes in all the streets nearby. But even she ran out of brain space trying to compute how much rubbish like this there would be on the Great Orb.

It’s painful imagining our beautiful planet struggling with the weight of it all.

Hard rubbish day – Grandle

Today Pipe and I went to the local tip to recycle some of the stuff we cannot use anymore so we didn’t have to put it in hard rubbish. We’ve been worried, that although we try not to buy a lot, somehow we always have things in the house we no longer use.

We had some computers and an old printer which the recycling centre took for free. They dissemble the machines and arrange them into spare parts or metals that can be melted down.

We also had loads of old books which they were pleased to add to their library.

We hope that the old plastic mop which had broken will be shredded and made into something recycled.

It is such a small contribution to recycling, but if everyone did it, perhaps those piles of rubbish on hard rubbish day would not be so big.  And so distressing.  Especially for our planet.

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Min says . . . about hard rubbish

Make conscious decisions about what you buy.  What will you do with it once it no longer works, or you don’t want it any more . . . ?  Can it be recycled, or upcycled.  Would a second hand item do just as well?

When you have no other choice, take your stuff to your local tip, to help the sorting, up-cycling, or recycling they do there.

There are so many super-creative gawples teaching how to up-cycle clothes.  This video about how to reuse t-shirts only using scissors is amazing.

Send your old clothes and shoes to Upparel.  There is a cost ($25 per 10 kilos) but as Upparel says:

‘For every 1kg of textiles that avoids landfill, you’ll prevent an average 3-4kg of greenhouse gases from polluting the atmosphere. Not to mention that 100% of the items that come to UPPAREL are reused, recycled or repurposed within Australia – meaning absolutely nothing is sent off-shore or to landfill.’

There must be similar organisations elsewhere like this in the world?

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