Recycling Guide for Western Sydney

It's God's good Earth so care for it by recycling!

Enjoy!

1. Plastic bags
Plastic bags should not be placed in the yellow recycling bin. Soft plastics and plastic bags can be recycled through soft plastic drop off bins at supermarkets.
Woolworths
Coles

2. Ripped or torn clothing
These cannot be recycled but can be re-used. Old t-shirts, torn towels and linens make good cleaning and dusting rags - no need to buy cleaning cloths. After use put these in your red lidded bin. 

3. Electronic waste
mobiles,TVs, video and DVD players, stereos and speakers, printers, fax machines, electronic games and toys, game consoles, digital and video cameras, desktop and laptop computers, computer monitors, keyboards, computer mouse, hard drives, motherboards, network, video and sound cards, cables, microwaves, vacuum cleaners, hairdryers, alarm clocks, toasters and kettles, irons, drills and other power tools
PCRC
SUEZ Seven Hills

4. Aluminum foil
It goes in your recycling bin. Small pieces get lost in the recycling process so save foil and roll into a golf ball size to recycle. Foil with grease can be recycled, just make sure you give it a quick wipe. 

5. Nappies
These are not recyclable and should go in the red lidded bin. Maybe think about how to change to a more sustainable alternative. Read the Choice disposable and cloth nappy buying guide

6. Household batteries
ALDI, Battery World, PCRC

7. car batteries
PCRC

8. paint
PCRC

9. polystyrene
PCRC
HCRC

10. smoke detectors
PCRC

11. light globes
Incandescent globes and halogen can go in the red lidded garbage bin.
Compact fluorescents globes contain toxic mercury and need to go to a recycling centre ie
• compact fluorescent lamps
• fluorescent u-tubes
• linear fluorescent lamps
• mercury vapour lamps
• metal halide lamps
• sodium vapour lamps
• uv Lamps
• led tubes.
PCRC
Household Chemical Cleanout
Ikea Marsden Park

12. gas bottles and fire extinguishers
PCRC

13. motor and other oils
PCRC

14. polystyrene
PCRC

15. Clothes
Racer Allround Recycling

16. Shoes
Racer Allround Recycling

17. Handbags
Racer Allround Recycling

18. Soft Toys
Racer Allround Recycling

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Penrith Community Recycling Centre
(PCRC)
Gate 3, 96 Dunheved Circuit, St Marys
02 4732 7777
Monday to Friday - 8.30 am to 2.00 pm
Saturday - 8 am to 12 noon
Sunday - closed.

SUEZ Seven Hills M-F 7-4 S-S 9-4 free for  Blacktown Council Residents

Ikea 9am-3:30pm – 1 Hollinsworth road, Marsden Park

Racer Allround Recycling
Facebook
9607 9999
Drop off bins
WENTWORTHVILLE  – Station street, the Kingsway, Commuter carpark
TOONGABBIE  – Wentworth avenue
ST MARYS  - Corner of Forrester road and Glossop street, mosque carpark, inside gate, Enter at Glossop street.

Hawkesbury Community Recycling Centre

(HCRC)

 1 The Driftway, South Windsor.

I would like a car with cruise control

I would.

All of my friends have one ... Well, I haven't actually done a survey to say that for sure, but it is a pretty fair expectation for anyone with a solid job. No sense of privilege.

My devotion mentioned Matthew 7:7 "Ask and it will be given you." Initially I thought, "I don't need anything, I'm so over things. They don't have any power over me."

Then I thought about the cruise control. I would like one.

Then I thought about the people I visit around the world. One of them has a bike, with one good pedal.

It became a rights issue. What right do I have to use all those resources to get a car with a cruise control - a luxury none of my friends, no one in my culture, would deny me.

Of course the car I have or don't have won't much help my friend with a dud pedal - not unless I make the connection. Less stuff for me and more for him and his community, that would be good for both of us.

It's wallowing in first world guilt of course, but a bit of guilt might just be a path to a new, fairer and healthier world for all of us.

Big World Small World

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/apr/23/population-how-many-people-can-the-earth-sustain-lucy-lamble?CMP=share_btn_link

This article looks at the dilemma of the world's rapidly growing population. It touches on two possible futures, albeit indirectly, one where we use technology to reduce population growth, and another thwhere we embrace a big world where the growing population produces a bouyant economy for all.

My first reaction was that we need to shift our spending from keeping old white people alive to keeping young black people alive. Let's put out effort in where it is most needed. Let's give every one an equal chance at lifel. You can see what a huge change in our global mindset that this would need, and you can imagine the philosophic discussions it would generate.

The deeper question it later provoked was this: If God has a future for our world, what dues it look like? Is it one where the system God had set up checks itself by reducing the population as we approach the capacity of the earth. In this scenario we aid God by contraception and population control in general. Ethical dilemmas like who do we could in population control quickly emerge.

The second option is much more bold. It says the population of the earth is essentially limitless.  It says, as we learn to live with each other we will find ways to use the world's resources more economically, drawing from them a lifestyle for all which we can't currently imagine. Reduced consumption, more efficient production and better sharing would be it's hallmark. In this scenario how we live together rather than population control is in focus.

There is of course the possibility that there is a third scenario that I haven't thought of. The point is really that if God expects us to work for charge in this world, as God does, there must be a sustainable end point toward we were are working, this side of heaven. Then there is another discussion about where the boundary between here and heaven is.

Rocky Road

Craig McLachlan got the raunchy role of Frank-N-Furter because he "steps out far beyond what most other performers can do".  His presentation of promiscuous and sexually exploitative behaviour is what audiences want.  Now we are telling him that in the acting workplace as distinct from the acting role, this kind of behaviour is not ok.  There is a fine line there.  This is not to excuse Craig, should a court find him guilty.  It is however to remind ourselves that as shapers of our culture we all have some responsibility for allowing things that are not ok to be seen as ok.