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My weekend started early at North Curly Saturday morning with a pod of playful dolphins and ended (photography-wise anyway) back at North Curly early Sunday arvo for the wildest shorey...
Yes folks it’s about that time of year when we starting to ourselves, hmmm must be time to give someone a new surfboard from us here at, in Byron Bay today. Naturally it’ll be...
Ok it’s been a long time since we’ve done this but bear with us, in Byron Bay today. It all started with a surf check that revealed it to be small lumpy and considerably more crowded...
The Byron Bay Malibu Classic got of to a start with a lumpy swell grey skies and rain squalls, in Byron Bay today. It’s true Huey wasn’t really being that cooperative. But hey...
Started the day at North Curly where it was big but very inconsistent. The sets were 1/2 km out so required a long, unassisted paddle out where you could score a long ride all the...
First surfer picture galleries I’ve posted in absolute yonks. We finally had good shooting conditions and sizable swell on the weekend of the the 16-17th. On Saturday morning...Rally for a Refund this weekend
Posted by: Don on August 13th, 2012In about two weeks State Environment ministers will meet in Canberra to decide if they’ll support a nationwide Container Deposit Scheme (CDS) and the good people at Boomerang Alliance and Take 3 are calling for surfers, sailors, kayakers and other ocean lovers to rally for a refund by taking part in a Harbour Paddle Out this Saturday 18 August from 1130-1300 at Blues Point Reserve, North Sydney (nr Henry Lawson Ave).
It seems crazy that we have to do stuff like this when surveys show that 80% of the population supports a CDS (y’know, like the one that’s been successfully operating in SA for, oh, decades)
A couple interesting quotes for you from the Boomerang Alliance people:
It has been reported that up to one third of all marine debris in the worlds oceans can be traced back to the
beverage industry – this industry has avoided legislation to effectively capture their used containers for too long -
CDS is tried and tested around the world and in South Australia where they recycle 80% of all beverage containers.Research by the Boomerang Alliance recently found that 8 BILLION beverage containers are sent to landfill or littered
every year, in this day and age it IS SIMPLY UNACCEPTABLE!If you can’t make the event please sign and share this simple online letter to your local member supporting a
CDS: http://www.boomerangalliance.org.au/component/content/article/38.html
If all the containers are removed from the Council collections (rebates removed), who will pay to have the other recyclable products collected? Councils currently provide a kerbside collection service that is subsidised by the sale of the containers collected. The infrastructure is already in place.
There is no infrastructure anywhere except in SA, that can handle such a change to an existing system.
SA had their CDL in place prior to the kerbside systems being set up.
Without knowing the detail, I reckon they\’ll a) still have the paper and cardboard stream and b) many of us will probably just chuck our bottles and cans in the recycling as we do now – and that should create a handy revenue stream for councils. I daresay they don\’t get the equivalent of 10 cents per item out of the current arrangement.
I posted some photos from the rally on FB . http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.43769014…