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RECYCLING MESSAGE IN AN ALUMINIUM CAN

Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability
The Honourable Kate Jones
07/03/2010
RECYCLING MESSAGE IN AN ALUMINIUM CAN

Half of the rubbish collected at last year's Clean Up Australia Day could have been recycled if it had been properly disposed of in the first place.

Climate Change and Sustainability Minister Kate Jones urged the thousands of volunteers heading out for today's (Sunday) 20th Clean Up Australia Day to recycle the rubbish they collected wherever possible.

"Every year volunteers across Queensland do a wonderful job cleaning up our streets, beaches, parklands and nature reserves," Ms Jones said.

"I'd like to thank them for their tireless efforts this year, and every year, and also remind them that, depending on where they are collecting, they may be able to recycle the rubbish they pick up.

"Every piece of rubbish we recycle represents a significant saving in energy and raw materials.

"A great example is the simple aluminium can.

"Recycling just one aluminium can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours.

"It ta kes about 95 per cent less energy to make aluminium from used cans than it does to make them from scratch out of bauxite, the raw material used to make aluminium."

Ms Jones said that five tonnes of bauxite were needed to make just one tonne of aluminium cans.

"Recycling aluminium cans reduces the need for raw materials, reduces the use of our valuable energy resources and reduces the amount of waste going to landfill," she said.

"This Clean Up Australia Day, on behalf of all the volunteers who are out there doing their bit, I'd like to urge all Queenslanders to recycle more of their rubbish.

"People are doing the right thing some of the time, but so much more can be done to stop wasting resources and losing job opportunities by not recycling.

"It's a matter of awareness - if the wasted resources that are lost when a can is thrown away were better understood, more cans would be able to be reused.

"The savings in precious raw mat erials and energy by recycling are staggering - recycling has massive benefits to the environment and the economy that can be achieved through the simple act of putting your aluminium can in the correct bin."

Ms Jones will pick up rubbish this morning at a Clean Up Australia collection at The Gap.

Permanent Link: RECYCLING MESSAGE IN AN ALUMINIUM CAN
Publish Date: 07 Mar 10

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Queensland Government, Office of Climate Change :
Brisbane

Comments / Have your say

I find it such a dreadful shame that our Minister doesnt realise that Jennifer Parkhurst has been doing exactly that for the last 7 years on Fraser Island.
She has received no gratitude what so ever from the Govt. She even sent photo's and DVD's to the Fraser Island DERM Park Rangers of the work she had been doing and they turned round and said "We didnt ask you to do it "
What sort of Govt do we have that insults a volunteer that has cleaned up the shoreline of Fraser Island of all marine debris and rubbish dumped by the Tourists?
It makes you wonder , why do any volunteer work for the Govt.?
So I just question the Minister's motives here.
These volunteers are only out for one day, they are supplied with the clean up bags, where as Jennifer Parkhurst had to pay for all the bags and all the fuel to travel up and down the Island.

Maybe Australia Story should do a small piece on her ? Just wondering.

dingosimon of Outback Qld

1 of 17th March 2010, 8.21am
1. Brumbyy replied to dingosimon
  
  7th March 2010, 10.20am
  
  The Minister doesn't have to clean up the beaches on Fraser Island the Dingoes do that and then she kills them off and as they are biodegradable, they unnatuarably dissapear and Ms Parkhurst came along and removed the plastics and foils left from the dead dingo gut contents that wasn't degradable.
  
  A win win situation for the Minister and jail for the environmentalist.
  
  Minister Kate Jones is interested in Politics, not sound environmentalism.
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