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Your dentist would ideally like to see you change your toothbrush every three to four months. 

That's a lot of plastic waste.

According to the World Wildlife Fund, around 3.5 billion disposable plastic toothbrushes – usually made from polypropylene and nylon which can take up to 500 years to break down in landfill – are purchased each year around the world. 

The vast majority will end up as plastic pollution.

It's Sw(OP) shop time!

MONDAY 21 NOVEMBER LUNCH TIME IN ROOM 201 (CRLC)

Fact: 50% of all fabric ever made is now in landfill.

Fact: 30 million pairs of jeans are sold in the world DAILY

​Going Circular documentary film, 2022

Be part of the solution by supporting the annual SW(OP) shop, either by donating, buying for a gold coin, or BOTH

Clean, re-usable donations only please to the collection bin opposite Student Services.

Felicity Maher
Sustainability Officer

It is National Recycling Week.

To get involved, you can take the 30 day recycling challenge!

Source:

National Recycling Week | Cleanaway

​Thanks to Ann Blakey for her inspiration for this week's Greentip.

Felicity Maher
Sustainability Officer

Reducing waste is an important sustainability promoting action.  

This Greentip is a reminder that your used oral care products can still be dropped off at Student Services in the boxes provided to be recycled by Terracycle.

Toothpaste tubes and caps, toothbrushes, interdental brushes, and floss containers are all accepted.

As is your makeup packaging including shadow and powder trays, lip gloss tubes, concealer tubes and sticks, mascara tubes, and lotion dispensers.

A reason to take sustainability promoting action....​

​How will you start a ripple?

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Felicity Maher
Sustainability Officer

It's National Water Week.

Click to hear an audiobook presentation of the Australian book When Water Lost Her Way, which was on the 2019 'Notable' list from the Children's Book Council of Australia. 

Written and read by Meg Humphrys. 

When Water Lost Her Way - ABC Radio National 
 

Get ready!  Following the first lettuce sale last year and due to popular demand, the lettuces will be back.

Collection Day: Tuesday Week 5 (8 November) 1:00pm-3:15pm or by arrangement to [email protected].  

200 punnets will be available at $6 each, or $42 for a tray of 8 punnets.

Please click here to find the order form.

Felicity Maher

Sustainability Officer

September is National Biodiversity Month.

Biodiversity is the variety of all life forms on earth – the different plants, animals and micro-organisms, and the ecosystems that are their homes.

Here at Merici we are continuing with the Biodiversity Restoration and Re-Wilding Project. 

Why does this matter?

Australia is one of a group of only 17 ‘mega-diverse’ countries. These mega-diverse countries cover less than 10% of the world’s area but have more than 70% of its biodiversity.