In support of Plastic Free July and for every other month, another easy way to reduce your demand for plastic waste (see image).
This is already happening at Merici where you can buy your beverages from the Canteen in reusable crockery or bring your own cup.
Please consider not bringing off-site disposable, single use cups to campus.
Felicity Maher
Sustainability Officer
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It's Plastic Free July!
Unless you are able to buy your fruit and vegetables direct from the source, or your local grower's market, you are likely to come across plastic stickers on your produce.
Good news! They can be recycled!
All you need to do to recycle them is stick them to a bigger piece of soft plastic before you pop it in with the rest of your soft plastic collection and take it to a REDcycle collection bin at Coles next time you shop.
Felicity Maher
Sustainability Officer
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Here at Merici we have a great crop of kale in the garden at the moment.
Below is a recipe using kale. Kale pesto...we are all better for eating more greens, right?
Ingredients
Sustainability and sustainable futures are the goals of a process called ‘sustainable development’.
So, what is ‘sustainable development?’
According to the original definition:
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".
Brundtland Report (WCED, 1987)
This definition emphasises the long-term concept of sustainability and introduces the
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It is World Ocean Day.
Please take a moment to reflect on what the oceans bring to you.
Felicity Maher
Sustainability Officer
Sunday June 5th is World Environment Day.
"Only One Earth" is the campaign slogan for 2022, with the focus on “Living Sustainably in Harmony with Nature”.
World Environment Day takes place every year on 5 June.
It is the United Nations’ flagship day for promoting worldwide awareness and action for the environment.
Over the years, it has grown to be the largest global platform for environmental public outreach.
