Waste Links

Stories, movies and other resources can help you to learn about the issues, hear what other people are doing, think about your part, and get creative about how you are going to meet the challenges.  Most of the links here are inspirational, positive stories and resources about waste.  Sometimes, the issues involved in waste can be difficult to learn about, like the effect of rubbish on baby turtles in the Charlie Beats the Drums link.  These challenging links are written in red font.  Watch them, definitely, but only when you feel up to examining the problems.  Follow up the 'red' stories by checking out some of the other resources and thinking about what YOU can do.

Gumeracha Primary School and their Worm Farm
Students from Gumeracha Primary School have learnt a lot about Worm Farms and want to share what they have learnt with the world!  
Click here to check out their video on how to set up a worm farm.
Maybe you could make your own 'How to' video!

Waste Land
This is absolutely beautiful and as it says in the movie, what happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.  This movie is a gem for anyone with a passion for people, movies, art, and change.
Click here to see the Waste Land movie YouTube, and be inspired.



Planet Ark's National Recycling Week
Planet Ark's National Recycling Week campaign promotes the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling!  National Recycling Week 2012 runs from Monday 12 - Sunday 18 November.  On this website you will find a heap of great info, resources and events.  Find out more about the Schools' Recycle Right Challenge, the Big Aussie Swam and some great activities for school kids.  Get involved!
Click here to go to the Planet Ark website.



Mindarie Regional Council
Mindarie is doing its best to reduce the impact of waste on the environment.  They have a recycling shop, tours of their facilities and teacher resources.  Click here to find out more.

Living in a World Without Waste
Check out this video to learn about the town in Japan that is trying to live in a world without waste.  What would be some of the challenges?  How might they overcome them?  What would be the benefits? Could you introduce this thinking, or at least some of it, in YOUR town???

Charlie Beats the Drums... to Save Endangered Turtles
Do you ever wander where I rubbish can end up?  And what damage it can do?  
Watch this youtube vid to find out.

Green Office Guide
If you love stationery, but still want to make sure that you buy products that don't produce too much waste, check out this Green Office Guide from Barcelona. You can find similar guides for Australia if you do a bit of a search.  Wouldn't that be a great business - a shop full of environmentally friendly office and school stationery!




Clean Up Australia
A clean planet can start with one idea...  
What will YOU do to clean up Australia and the WORLD?
Find out more by clicking here.

Hungry Bacteria
Click here to read a case study, showing what Alcoa is doing to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions and energy usage.You can also find out more about Alcoa's sustainability strategy and what they are doing around the world.

The Uniform Project

Have you ever looked in your wardrobe and thought you had nothing to wear?  What if you had to wear the same dress every day for a year??? Could you be creative and come up with different outfits every day?  How could this benefit other kids that had less than you? And what's this got to do with waste?

Check out this ‘Story Book’ and be inspired!!  Click here to see 365 ways of wearing one dress.

More on the Uniform Project

Now that you have had a taster of the Uniform Project, you probably want to know more.  Watch the youtube vid below to find out why and how Sheena carried out the Uniform Project and what is coming up next for her and the Uniform Project Team. Click here 

There’s No Such Thing As Waste

This boppy little song about the 6th permaculture principle, reminds us to save water, save energy, get composting, get planting and feed our leftovers to our mums!

Click here to see (and hear) the little song about waste.

Rubbish in the landscape?

This group of Permaculturalists set out to deal with a rubbish problem in a small town in Indonesia.  It certainly looks tidier.  Can you see some problems with this?  Do you have any other suggestions as to what they could do to clean up the area?
Watch a short video of waste in the landscape here.

A Family that saves together...

Imagine if you could only put your bins out once a year.  What would your family do differently?  Check out the story here of this family who set themselves this challenge.