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Used paper towel is often found in the yellow recycling bins at Merici.

Paper towels are not recyclable and cannot be disposed of alongside your other paper and cardboard recyclables.

Although paper towels are typically made using wood or cardboard, the process that gets them kitchen-ready makes them non-recyclable. 

Plus, they can also be contaminated with toxic or non-organic products.

Unbleached paper towels can go in the compost.

Others must sadly go to landfill. 

Get a plant!

Australians spend around 90% of their time indoors.

Studies show that indoor air is more polluted than outdoor air.

Indoor plants are an easy and attractive way to purify the air in your home and workplace.

Keep them away from your pets though!

More information:

Why grow indoor plants? | Sustainable Gardening Australia (sgaonline.org.au)

At school, home and work in the ACT look for yellow bins. Into these bins, please put only glass jars and bottles, plastic containers, cans, paper and cardboard.

Nothing else and definitely no food or soft plastics.

Thanks for doing your part to reduce waste to landfill. 

Felicity Maher
Sustainability Officer

What do you do when you have leftover food?

According to foodbank.org.au:

In Australia, 7.6 million tonnes of food is wasted every year. 

While 70% of this food is still perfectly edible, 1 in 6 Australian adults haven’t had enough to eat in the last year. 

On top of this, 1.2 million children have gone hungry during the same period.

So what should you do with leftover food?

Please use recycled paper products wherever possible.

Doing so:

• Closes the loop - that means it creates a market for the paper you put in your recycling bin.
• Saves trees
• Uses less water
• Uses less energy
• Reduces methane

Felicity Maher

Sustainability Officer

March 3 is World Wildlife Day. 

This United Nations International day celebrates the world's wild animals and plants and the contribution that they make to our lives as well as to the health of the planet.

Our biodiversity restoration project here at Merici supports World Wildlife Day by restoring habitat and food sources for wildlife.

Copy and paste this link for a one minute film clip

https://youtu.be/9e6WCiWKMxo

Felicity Maher
Sustainability Officer