Belly,
Welcome back !
“3 weeks and 3 days…My server is government sponsored satellite… it took ten minutes once the service man came but 24 days! to get him here”
And this is on the watch of the team that is going to give us a home-grown national broadband network–poor fellow us!

[OK that’s enough stirring for today—back to the topic]

I don’t want sound like a luddite, BUT, re: putting plastic bags under the lawn mower & its kissing cousin, pulverising tree clippings.At first glance they seem like sound moves –but any such processes are likely to produce both pollution from burnt fuel and add a whole lot of micro-particles to the air .

If you’re selling the mulch, like some councils do, it may show as –economically worthwhile – but from a wider, community cost-benefit perspective, what’s the bottom line –does anyone have any info on this– might not it be better just to allow such waste to its own decay processes?

What a lot of excellent POV's, where to start?

Agreed about leaf blowers and like - it is the tool at the other end that is of concern.

Kulu - I was describing an emergency situation where we were attempting to minimise ember attack. Normally I bag leaves for council mulching and composting.

Packaging - "mummy lollies" how utterly appalling and irresponsible to describe medication as such to a child. Well, I am sure we can devise ways to reduce the amount of packaging and keep products safe and secure from contamination and prying fingers.

Anyone watch the "New Inventors"? If you want to feel hope for the human race, then just tune into this ABC show. We are almost as clever as the orangutan, whose strategic plan for escape from the Adelaide zoo, should make us rethink our supposed place at the top of the evolutionary tree.

The truth is out there. Still.

Repair-reuse-refill-recycle-?

I think that is how it goes. It more than just dealing with waste. It's also about conserving resources.

Kulu,
Absolutely I'm not saying I agree only pointing out the reasoning it all came about. Remember laws like this are there to protect the stupid/ignorant/inept from themselves. And before the social Darwinists get wound up. Please don't waste our time. The reason there isn't a better answer is because of profit and limited mindsets of the executives always focusing on EBIT for this month quarter and of course their bonus's

Fractelle
As a bush carer you would be amazed if I told you how many candidates for the Darwin awards candidates (some supposedly average people there are.
Hot Windy day a group of subcontractors in a tip lit a fire to burn some rubbish....Yup the Adelaide hills disaster.
So it won't be a surprise to tell you of the man who couldn't wait half an hour for the tip to open he was missing the fishing. So what do you think he did? Left the bag by the tip gates? nope he took it fishing and scattered it in the bay "cos it's recyclable it'll decompose quicker in the sea" he said what was the litter the packing for his new plasma including plastic bags. He was tittered bwisted when the water police made him retrieve all he could then fined him.
End of story.....no no this citizen wrote to the paper claiming a discount because he was a pensioner and a war vet! He tried to go to court claiming he was unfairly treated for the same reasons. Yer right.
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