Port Lincoln Waste Watch | QUIZ
- PORT LINCOLN WASTE WATCH
- Opinion: Waste Watch has come to an end, or has it?
- Reusable coffee cups on the rise
- What are you doing to tackle the waste battle?
- Compostable takeaway containers
- Cost too high for recycling pick up in the Lower EP
- Rise in Port Lincoln household recycling
- What is e-waste recycling?
- Colourful arts and crafts with waste
- How to tackle the plastic bag battle
- Vision to have no bins at schools
- Join Plastic Free July with Adventure Bay Charters
- Recycle, reduce, reuse and more
Waste – it’s a conversation that started in our lounge rooms from the ABC’s recent War on Waste series and has now filtered out into our communities.
The Port Lincoln Times decided to investigate what individuals and businesses were doing across the region to minimise their waste footprint.
OPINION: WASTE WATCH HAS COME TO AN END, OR HAS IT?
The watch has ended.
While our four-week Waste Watch campaign has come to a close, for many in Port Lincoln their watch has just begun.
JOIN PLASTIC FREE JULY
PLASTIC FREE JULY: Sarah Hayes at Adventure Bay Charters is encouraging people to get on board Plastic Free July which helps to keep plastic out of the ocean and create a safer environment for sea lions and other sealife.
July is only days away which means waste initiative Plastic Free July is near and Port Lincoln business Adventure Bay Charters is getting on board.
“It's a challenge, it’s not a competition, you can't fail Plastic Free July,” Adventure Bay Charters employee Sarah Hayes said.
RECYCLE, REDUCE, REUSE AND MORE
DECLUTTER: Eco Organiser Tanya Lewis looks forward to coming to Port Lincoln later in the year to share the benefits of a decluttered life
Eco organiser Tanya Lewis is striving to change individual and community attitudes to declutter and minimise waste, and she could be coming to Port Lincoln soon.
Part of her workshops focus on what she calls the 10 R’s, to look at simple ways of not even bringing waste into the home.
VISION TO HAVE NO BINS AT SCHOOLS
NUDE FOOD: Navigator students Matilda Packer, Airlie Hartwich, Grace Hartley, Ruby Kidney and teacher Alexander Haynes show off their 'nude food' lunch boxes.
Two Port Lincoln schools are starting waste education at a young age by looking at lunch boxes with a vision to no longer require waste bins in the school yard.
HOW TO TACKLE THE PLASTIC BAG BATTLE
NO PLASTIC BAGS: Andrea Thomas has never had a plastic bag in her store however she said we must not feel guilty when we forget our reusable bags at the grocery store.
South Australia has had a plastic bag ban for eight years now but there is always more people can do to minimise their use of plastic.
Eyre Imports owner Andrea Thomas has never had a plastic bag in her shop since she opened in 2003 and had some advice on how to minimise household plastic.
Do you throw out your soft plastics? Did you know there is a solution to keep them out of landfill?
Coles has a solution – with REDcycle bins and there is one located in Port Lincoln.
COLOURFUL ARTS AND CRAFTS WITH WASTE
COLOURFUL WASTE: Artist and teacher Jill Pantiyasa with a paper mache peacock made with a recycled bottled and a fish covered in old plastic lids.
Lids on plastic bottles cannot be recycled and usually end up in landfill but one local artist is looking to collect them for her art classes.
Jill Pantiyasa owns Quirky Owl and regularly has classes for children during school holidays with a particular focus on getting crafty with different elements of waste.
“It's good for them to see that you can use things to create something aesthetically pleasing that would otherwise be rubbish.”
RISE IN HOUSEHOLD RECYCLING IN PORT LINCOLN
The availability of kerbside recycling has seen Port Lincoln residents increase recycling efforts over the last 10 years.
JAM PACKED: Hans Stoetzer is busy loading more than 20 tonnes of household recyclable material at the Port Lincoln Resource Recovery Centre.
The Port Lincoln Resource Recovery Centre, managed by Veolia, collects between 21 and 24 tonnes a week.
Veolia Port Lincoln acting manager Hans Stoetzer said he had definitely seen an increase in recycling coming through the centre.
WHAT IS E-WASTE RECYCLING?
Do you have an old television lying around, or old phones, computers and laptops?
E-WASTE: What is it and how do you do you recycle it?
If you are not sure what to do with them – there is good news – they can all be recycled at multiple places across Port Lincoln.
COST TOO HIGH FOR RECYCLING PICK UP IN LOWER EYRE
Residents in the Lower Eyre Peninsula District Council area have questioned why they do not have the same access to kerbside recycling as Port Lincoln residents.
GET RECYCLING: Recycling in the Lower Eyre Peninsula district just takes a little effort to sort before taking it to the nearest waste depot for a small fee.
Concerned Poonindie resident Daryl Mortimer said he was worried about people not being able to access kerbside recycle bins.
REUSABLE COFFEE CUPS ON THE RISE
On an average day, people in Port Lincoln go through several hundreds of take away coffee cups.
This results in a staggering average of 300,000 take away coffee cups piling up in Port Lincoln landfill each year.
Port Lincoln councillor Andrea Broadfoot and local resident Jack Ritchie said people should be concerned about the addition coffee cups created to waste.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO TACKLE THE WASTE BATTLE?
We spoke to some residents on what they were doing to tackle waste and whether they think more needs to be town in their council areas.
TAKEAWAY CONTAINERS CAN NOW BE COMPOSTED
There is a new cafe in town making a stamp in minimising the takeaway waste culture with compostable items that would usually become landfill.
Pukka Health uses utensils, coffee cups, straws and more that are all compostable, which means customers can put the take away items in their compost heaps in the backyard.
COMPOSTABLE WASTE: Tamika Hage, Bree Manthorpe and Kirsty Kenny with some of the compostable items.
BAKERIES DONATING BREAD TO THOSE IN NEED
Local bakeries are doing their bit by donating leftover produce and are always looking for more people in need to provide food to.
DONATED: Jorgie Lawrence and Lucy Wilsen with a trolley of left over bread.