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Plastic waste

Saturday July 12

Tow girls holding a blue bucket of plastic bottles

Recycling guide for South East Queensland

Recycling is one of the easiest ways to care for Creation — check out this South East Queensland recycling guide, compiled by Angligreen’s The Rev’d Peter Moore ahead of World Environment Day, which is commemorated on 5 June annually

People picking up plastic waste on the beach

What happens to plastic in the ocean?

“With Plastic Free July currently underway, I was encouraged this month to investigate microplastics in our environment and responsible responses,” says The Rev’d Peter Moore from Angligreen

Peter and Alison Moore walking along Blunder Creek in Forest Lake on Sunday 29 May 2022, picking up litter with their "104 or more" Brisbane City Council bags. Council has a community initiative encouraging everyone to pick up two pieces of litter per week, every week of the year, to keep 104 pieces of litter out of our streets, bushlands and waterways

Plastic pollution is a big problem that we can collectively take small steps to solve

“On my afternoon walks with my wife, Alison, we each carry a shoulder bag because along the track we find considerable litter – many chocolate wrappers, plastic bags, take-away cups and other items. We collect soft plastics in one bag and the hard plastic containers, cups and cans in the other, so they are not washed into the creek,” says The Rev’d Peter Moore as World Environment Day approaches

Maths propels students to help save the ocean

Students at St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School in Ascot are exploring the daunting environmental issue of plastic pollution in our world’s oceans in a study that combines technology and mathematics processes