The Weekly Times - TWT - 6th June 2018

16 THE WEEKLY TIMES Wednesday 6 June, 2018
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
June 5th
Ryde’s green sage on the importance of tradition
STALWART North Ryde Greenie Jimmy Shaw
has been putting up a World Environment Day
banner in Top Ryde every year in living memory.
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STALWART Green Jimmy Shaw hooks up the
World Environment Day banner at Top Ryde. Mr
Shaw has urged parents and schools to devote
this week to teaching children gardening and
to respect our native species. TWT on-the-spot
PHOTO
Now in his 93rd year,
Jimmy Shaw believes it is
more important than ever to
remember this date and the
traditions that come with it.
“Not only is this my birthday,
it is the day we celebrate
our planet and the day
we raise awareness of how
important it is to protect our
planet.
“It is a day we traditionally
clean up our parks and our
waterways, plant trees and
teach children to care for the
earth.”
Mr Shaw hopes this year’s
focus will be on habitat, especially
the loss of native
species due to a diminishing
of their habitat to erosion
and encroaching development.
“Australia’s native species
are peaceful, but vulnerable
and Australia has now lost
more native species than any
other continent,” he said.
“We forget that many native
animals need a wide
area to roam through to survive,
areas with a diversity of
plants and food, otherwise
they perish.”
If Jimmy Shaw had one
birthday wish it would be
that children learn gardening
at school and he has devoted
many hours of his time
to teaching gardening at Our
Lady Queen of Peace School
in Gladesville.
“It is important to teach
gardening to teach children
about ecology and biodiversity
and just to teach them
about the wonders of life,”
he said.
“I strongly believe that children
should get their hands
dirty playing in the dirt because
soil and water gives
us life on earth.”
City of Ryde Clr Edwina
Clifton agreed.
Councillor Clifton is a
councillor from The Greens
and is committed to a safe
and sustainable local environment.
“Most people would say
they love what nature has
to offer and it is what makes
Australia such a unique and
beautiful place to live with
our stunning beaches, harbours
and oceans, our rivers,
parks and bushland,” Clr
Clifton said.
“ But sadly the very thing
we love as humans, we also
threaten.
“Plastic waste is literally
killing our marine life and
birds as they feed on it and
die sadly, starving to death
or with blocked intestines.”
She said it is easy to think
that someone else will take
care of the problems that endanger
our wildlife.
“But that is simply not the
case,” she said.
“It is up to us as individuals
to change our habits and
patterns.
“Don’t choose the plastic
wrapped vegetables just
bring a reusable bag along
and put them in that!
“Keep up with your recycling
and avoid one use
plastics.
“Every small step we take
does make a difference and
as you enjoy World Environment
Day we, your Greens
councillors, just ask you to
think what small steps you
can take to help.”
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RYDE ratepayers are paying more than three million dollars a year to support an environmental
scam that returns nothing, a local councillor said.
The money may not
even be going to help the
think we can do more to
recycle waste.”
said.
“We must begin to talk
environment.
At a recent council about waste mining not
“The money we pay
for the landfill (waste)
scheme goes into the
state government consolidated
revenue,” Clr
Penny Pedersen said.
“Under this scheme our
council must pay a levy
to the state government
for the amount of waste
we send to landfill and
last year The City of Ryde
meeting, Clr Pedersen
moved a motion that
could see more money
from waste returned to
the community and less
paid out into government
coffers.
Put simply, the motion
asks staff to investigate a
“waste mining” initiative
called microfactory technology.
disposal.
“We must start to see
waste as a source of revenue
creating new products,
new industries and
new jobs.
“Instead of mining our
land for new resources
we should be looking to
recover usable mineral,
metals and nutrients from
our local waste.”
paid well over three million
This will see small mi-
The Ryde councillor
dollars to send our crofactories sift through said her idea has already
waste to landfill.
waste for things that attracted community interest.
“Having said that, Ryde
is making great improvements
in what ends up in
landfill and we were one
of the first councils to
start a construction recycle
facility, crushing and
rebagging concrete, but I
could be recycled or have
value and isso advanced
it could even pick up tiny
specks of gold.
“These factories are a
source of revenue; they
only require two to five
workers to operate,” she
“I’ve taken on board the
many requests from ratepayers
for a community
waste recycling facility
and a repair room where
things can be repaired
and reused and last I won
support for my motion!”
“So its not only important
to reduce what we
send to landfill for environmental
reasons but for
economic ones as well.”
For more information
on waste mining visit the
website:
https://newsroom.
unsw.edu.au/news/
science-tech/world-firste-waste-microfactorylaunched-unsw
WHAT A PONG !
Councillor Penny Pedersen
is pictured with
waste the City of Ryde
is paying the state
government three million
dollars a year to
send for landfill. TWT
on-the-spot PHOTO