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SSH July 2020 IN THE SAME BOAT? ART GOES VIRAL SOCIAL JUSTICE PAGE 6 REVIEW PAGES 9-10 READ SSH ONLINE SOUTHSYDNEYHERALD.COM.AU FREE PRINTED EDITION EVERY MONTH TO 10,000+ REGULAR READERS Number One Hundred and Ninety Four ~ July 2020 Circulation 10,000 ~ First Published 2002 ALEXANDRIA | BEACONSFIELD | CHIPPENDALE | DARLINGTON | ERSKINEVILLE | EVELEIGH | GLEBE | NEWTOWN | PADDINGTON | POTTS POINT | REDFERN | ROSEBERY | SURRY HILLS | ULTIMO | WATERLOO | WOOLLOOMOOLOO | ZETLAND It’s time to try Plastic Free July ENVIRONMENT is such a pristine environment and yet shearwater adults are MARJORIE LEWIS-JONES unwittingly feeding their chicks plastic fragments. Dr Jennifer A new book by Plastic Lavers, who works with the Free July founder Rebecca shearwater population, once Prince-Ruiz and author found 276 pieces of plastic in one Joanna Atherfold Finn chick. That is just unfathomable. encourages people to quit It’s sickening. It’s negligent. single-use plastics. In this It’s a problem that humans are Q&A they explain why. 100 per cent responsible for and it is not some distant example. How did the Plastic Free July challenge grow into a movement How bad are Australian statistics across 177 countries? when it comes to plastic waste? JAF: Plastic Free July started RPR: In Australia we have with a question that Rebecca a mixed record when it comes posed to a small group of to plastic waste. Although we friends and colleagues in WA: increased our overall recycling “I’m going plastic free next rates in 2017-18, the national month. Who wants to join plastics recycling rate was me?” The book charts how 9.4 per cent. Over half of this that question turned into an was exported for reprocessing “accidental campaign” as the – typically to countries where idea gradually rippled out manufacturing is also occurring into the community and then and as these countries follow across the nation and into other China’s lead and ban imports countries. The growth was not at of plastic waste this is set to all orchestrated, and that is part become even more challenging. of the charm of Plastic Free July. One of the most effective steps It is something people can do to governments could take is to be proactive about their plastic require recycled content in waste in their own way. Some plastic packaging and products. people just focus on the “top 4” This would help support the single-use plastics, others go recycling industry and decrease completely zero plastic waste the demand for virgin plastics. for the month and others make the challenge a new way of life. What changes have you implemented in your life since working on the book? What did you learn through working JAF: I’m far more conscious on this book about what plastic about reading the small print. is doing to the environment? It is easy to see a green leaf JAF: I think the biggest printed on a bag and just impact on me was to learn assume it’s environmentally more about hidden plastics – friendly, but that is often not in many tea bags for example, the case. Rebecca gave me some and also in bags that purport great produce bags for fruit and to be environmentally friendly vegetables and these now travel but that actually just break with me along with my reusable up into smaller pieces of grocery bags. Our family has plastic. These forms of plastic also been doing a lot more home don’t break down and so baking, which greatly reduces the problem spreads in a plastic packaging. That has been subversive way. I was also a response to the pandemic too. incredibly shocked at just how It seems as though many people low our recycling rates are. are reverting back to a more Rebecca Prince-Ruiz (left) founded Plastic Free July and her new book co-authored with Joanna Atherfold Finn outlines why we should all commit to reducing plastic waste. simple and sustainable way of life. Photo: Supplied How bad is plastic for creatures and ecosystems? What is one thing people can do to take up a lot of room and if we businesses are reducing their Plastic Free July: The Inspiring Story of a JAF: One of the stories that really reduce their use of single-use plastics? all did just that it would make a reliance on single-use plastic, Global Environmental Movement and Why hit home was the effect of plastic JAF: Pre-packing some huge difference. There are many so there really is something for It Matters by Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and on Lord Howe Island’s flesh-footed produce bags and a reusable stories in the book about how everyone in learning to be part Joanna Atherfold Finn, is published by shearwaters. Lord Howe Island water bottle or coffee cup doesn’t individuals, communities and of the solution. S NewSouth Publishing, July 2020, $32.99. 2 NEWS JULY 2020 ISSN 2652-4538 PUBLISHER South Sydney Uniting Church Raglan Street, Waterloo. The views expressed in this newspaper are those of the author and the article and are not necessarily the views of the Uniting Church. NEWS [email protected] Phone Lyn 0400 008 338 ADVERTISING [email protected] MAILING ADDRESS: PO Box 3288 Redfern NSW 2016 LETTERS Please send letters and emails to: The South Sydney Herald. Email: [email protected] Supply sender name and suburb. Size: 150 words or less. We may edit for legal or other reasons. FOUNDING EDITOR Trevor Davies (25.5.1956 – 14.6.2011) MANAGING EDITOR Marjorie Lewis-Jones ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Collis NEWS EDITOR Lyn Turnbull ASSISTANT EDITOR Louisa Dyce ARTS & FESTIVALS Anna North Community Development Officer Adam Antonelli and Bilingual Educator Denise Fung in Waterloo. Photo: Andrew Collis BOOKS Catherine De Mayo Has the community seen the and Northcott Connect? Or the EDUCATION details of the plan or reason loss of the Housing Communities Melinda Kearns Enough is enough ENVIRONMENT for the changes as promised Program, the Tenant Participation Miriam Pepper before lodgement? NO. Resource Service and the UNSW HUMAN AFFAIRS the communities they represent. Was the matching human Community Development Program Brittany Johnson WATERLOO REDEVELOPMENT The latest version is in the services plan developed? NO. – despite the promise that there FAITH Dorothy McRae-McMahon MIKE SHREENAN form of the part “masterplan” Will the City share full would be no loss of services in HEALTH for the Waterloo redevelopment details of the lodged plan the area? Should I ask whether Megan Weier I have had the pleasure of recently lodged with the City of before any changes are made the taxpayer-funded research and LEGAL & FOOD Maidie Wood working with the Redfern Sydney, which was supposed to by its processes? NOT YET. evaluation reports will ever see the LOCALS and Waterloo community for be matched by a comprehensive Will LAHC continue to fund light of day? Better not I suppose. Adrian Spry over 14 years – four years as a human services plan. the Community Development It is time that the government THEATRE Catherine Skipper community development worker It has been nearly five years Officer, the Aboriginal Liaison and those given the responsibility FILM and 10 years as Executive Officer since NSW Minister Brad Officer, or the bilingual educators to serve the community step Lindsay Cohen at Counterpoint Community Hazzard’s insensitive “have I got who have all supported the up, show some leadership and MUSIC Services (The Factory). good news for you” announcement Waterloo community on this honour their undertakings. It is Tess Ridgway in the lead-up to Christmas complex journey to date? NO. time they realised the damage SPORT & FITNESS Steve Turner As part of that work, I have 2015, that the government would Will the community be given and unnecessary trauma they URBAN DESIGN witnessed how this community attempt a third go at redeveloping independent support at crucial are causing through their Geoff Turnbull has been poked and prodded much the Waterloo social housing estate. times such as during the formal action and inaction. It is time SUB EDITORS Cathie Harrison like a doctor performing surgery During this time, there has exhibition phase? LAHC has said we as a community stand up Melinda Kearns on some unfortunate patient. been three-and-a-half years it cannot justify funding for this. and say enough is enough! DISTRIBUTION This has been under the guise of start-and-stop consultation Will the human services plan If the government is genuine [email protected] of planning and redevelopment and an array of promises that has been promised for over about community ownership, DESIGN proposals and place-based made for how the community 16 years ever eventuate? With it needs to stop the waffle, the GasolineGroup | www.gasolinegroup.com.au interventions by “well-intentioned” would be meaningfully this government’s bureaucratic empty placations and the shallow PRINTER government departments, engaged during the journey. wrangling and deflections of attempts to engage. It needs to Spotpress Pty Ltd | www.spotpress.com politicians and expert consultants. The release of the preferred responsibility – who knows! make its Waterloo plans public as “We gratefully acknowledge the All of them have promised to be masterplan in January 2019 Can we meet the executive promised and treat the community many volunteer contributors and distributors who make this better than the last. All of them was followed by a year-and- officer in charge of the with the respect and decency it publication possible.” promised community ownership a-half of complete silence as redevelopment? Not anymore. deserves, and stop taking away REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS and guaranteed complete the government was busy Can we meet the Minister meaningful resources and support Alice Anderson Patricia Morgan David Angell Peter Murphy transparency.
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