WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF OUR WASTE?

After the showing of the documentary TRASHED at Fremantle REPLANTS on Wray Avenue on Friday at 7pm, the City of Fremantle is also holding an information session on the Future of WAste at the Town Hall on Tuesday the 29th of July at 6 pm.

This is an opportunity for the community to give Fremantle council feedback on how we would want them to handle our waste, so turn up in droves and show you care about our future and the attempt to minimise landfill.

There are quite a few speakers:

* Tim Youe-CEO of the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council

* Piers Verstegen-Director of the Conservation Council of Western Australia

* Peter Dyson- managing Director of Phoenix Energy

* Jason Pugh-General Manager of New Energy

* Adam Johnson-Founder of Garbologie

 

Roel Loopers

COMBUSTION INCINERATORS TRASHED

Fremantle REPLANTS is showing the documentary TRASHED this Friday July 25 at 7 pm at 96 Wray Avenue, Freo. Here is some of what it is about:

” South Metro community are facing the threat of the largest mass combustion incinerator in the Southern Hemisphere as well as the largest Gasification incinerator and a potential Pyrolysis incinerator. These dirty waste to energy technologies will pollute the region with dangerous dioxin and mercury, destroy finite resources, undermine green jobs and leave a legacy of toxic ash requiring secure landfill. They do not produce clean renewable energy and will undermine the recycling and composting sectors which provide society with real zero waste outcomes that are safer, sustainable and ethical.

Trashed highlights the global waste problem and our role in its generation and management. It is a very confronting documentary…be warned…but essential viewing for those who care about sustainability and the misleading information being touted by our local, state and regional levels of government and their industry mates. Don’t miss this great opportunity to gain knowledge and thus power to make change in our communities! All welcome!”

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IT IS SUCH A WASTE – PROBLEM

Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt just got back from Japan where he looked at domestic waste incinerators, and the WA State Government wants more local councils to introduce a third bin for green and food waste, but should we not be looking more at domestic waste reduction.

Regular Freo’s View reader Mark Woodcock pointed out to me that his local bread shop each week throws out hundreds of loaves of bread, breadrolls and other food they bake, and he has now approached them to see if they are willing to donate it to charities or local schools instead, because he can’t stand the waste. I am sure the same applies to other bakeries and supermarkets, so why can’t they have a more social attitude and give to the community instead of throwing out food?

There could be a problem with health and food regulations, because I heard schools are no longer allowed to have cake stalls, because food for sale has to be produced in commercial kitchens. Maybe someone in the know can tell me if that is true.

When I was a kid in the Netherlands food scraps, potato peels, etc. were collected each week and transported to farms for fodder for pigs and chicken, but maybe that is no longer considered to be safe either.

What I do notice at take-away outlets and food markets is that many people don’t eat as much as they get served and that a huge amount of food ends up in rubbish bins. The same applies to cafes and restaurants, so why can’t we be offered different size portions, so that we create less food waste? A Cappuccino Strip cafe, that is no longer there, used to serve me six rashes of bacon for breakfast and when I asked to be served only two because I could not eat more, I was told the chef would not accommodate that, so they lost me as a customer.

We need to be more aware of our wasteful lifestyle in the western world because we are creating a huge problem for us all. Buy less, cook less, waste less, or at least share what is left over with people who need it.

Roel Loopers

WILL FREO BURN DOMESTIC WASTE?

It’s a worry to hear from environmentalist Lee Bell that the City of Fremantle could contemplate to start the very polluting incineration of domestic waste, with Mayor Brad Pettitt saying he has an open mind on burning waste.

The Mayor is joining a Liberal Party delegation to Japan to have a look at incinerators, according to Bell, who was a staff member to former Member for Fremantle Adele Carles.

Bell says that the Liberal party has adopted waste incineration as party policy in all states despite it being more polluting than coal in terms of CO2 and one of the major sources of highly toxic dioxin emissions. (Japan now has the highest levels of dioxin contamination in the world.) “It’s a crazy backward step.”

A Western Australian parliamentary document that details the tour describes it as having a “significant risk of negative public perception”

Do the W.A. Greens have a policy on domestic waste incineration or do they also have an open mind on it?

Roel Loopers