Category: Announcements
December 1, 2020
Merici College Green Tip #39 – How many litres of water does it take to produce a chocolate bar? Your dietary water-scarcity footprint!
It takes 21 litres of water to produce a small milk chocolate bar!
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November 25, 2020
Merici College Green Tip #37 – Who is responsible?
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November 18, 2020
Merici College Green Tip #36 – A different approach to buying clothes!
According to https://www.onegreenplanet.org/ fashion is the second largest water polluter in the world.
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November 11, 2020
Merici College Green Tip #35 – Canberra’s Zero Waste Festival this week online
To celebrate National Recycling Week, Canberra's Zero Waste Festival is on this week, Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th November.
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October 29, 2020
Merici College Green Tip #33 – Save clothing from landfill at Merici Sw(op) Shop event Tuesday 3 November
Australians buy an average of 27 kilograms of new textiles each year and then discard about 23 kilograms into landfill
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October 22, 2020
Merici College Green Tip #32 – National Water Week and Water Night
This week is National Water Week, October 19-25.
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October 16, 2020
Merici College Green Tip #31 – What does 2040 Producer Damon Gameau say?
We are on the precipice of peril and possibility at the same time.
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September 22, 2020
Merici College Green Tip #30 Get your pre-loved clothes ready, it’s SW(OP) shop time!
Who can forget the alarming clothing waste depicted in the ABC's War on Waste. The mountain of clothing which Australian's throw out every 10 minutes weighs approx 6000kg.
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September 15, 2020
Green Tip #29 – Call to action: What are you going to do?
House Competition! Collect as many beauty product packaging for House points!
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September 8, 2020
Merici College Green Tip #28 – Which country is the world’s highest emitter of CO2?
ABC's Fight for Planet A finds that it is..... Australia.
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