Recently I was watching a presentation on television which gave us insight into what was happening with all our waste.
I, like many who watched the show, was shocked to see and hear what was happening to our garbage.
We have been educated to use our coloured bins correctly and protect our environment.
But on the show we saw all waste being dumped into large bags, then stored in large warehouses to rot or be taken by truck loads interstate to be dumped illegally in many instances.
By the end of the show I am sure many would have asked the question, ‘Why do we worry about how we treat our wastage’.
In the local paper this week there was an insert called – Addressing the waste challenge. It gave me great hope that there are still some trying to do the right thing.
To read that there was a united front of six councils working together yet doing specific things in a specialised way was most uplifting.
The individual stories of schools, individuals being creative in their business ideas, campuses and the innovative ways they collect waste.
The reuse of milk bottles in piping, collecting food ‘out of date’ and making it available for charities.
The 30 millionth container collected by Agsafe at a Cosgrove property to recycle all the chemical drums from farms.
Pope Francis who is so concerned for our environment and what we are doing to it would be delighted in reading these pages and the stories of what concerned people with genuine innovative ideas are doing to save our environment.
November will mark 20 years of regional waste management in Victoria.
May we congratulate and thank those who are concerned for our environment whether collectively as the six councils or individually as our local schools.
Fr Michael Morley
