2012 ENVIRONMENTAL THEME
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Launched on February the 10th......
At the Rarotonga Waste Facility, Arorangi
This year 2012, was decided to be a 'waste' theme
to create awareness about the importance of waste
management here in the Cook Islands.
With limited landspace for landfills, waste must be
properly managed to avoid having to take precious
landspace for waste disposal.
With this environmental campaign, the National
Environment Service hopes to inspire the public to
sort household and business waste to limit rubbish
ending up in the landfill that is fast approaching the
end of its life.
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QUICK TIPS FOR THE HOME
- DO NOT put food scraps into rubbish bins! - This attracts flies, and turns into leachate, a toxic liquid at the landfill!! Feed your food scraps to pets, pigs, chickens or compost (no meat) for your own homemade fertilizer. Remember to rinse food cans, packets and takeaway containers.
- Separate recyclable rubbish from other rubbish. Recyclables are: plastic drink bottles (take lids off) and other things marked 1 and 2; Aluminium drink cans; glass bottles and jars.
- Reuse plastic bags, and refuse them when making small purchases. Reuse icecream bowls for food storage, toys, crayons, pet food and water bowls! They're great storage options and can be labelled and stacked.
- Paper can be composted too or take clean paper and cardboard to behind Foodland.
- Please store all electronic waste, the National Environment Service is working on organising another eDay to rid the Cook Islands of electronic waste. Do not dump your e-waste as it is full of bad metals that will poison YOU and YOUR environment. Your environment supports you so why not protect it??
Supported by CITC Go Green; CI General Transport/Recycle Cook Islands; Te Ipukarea Society; Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative (PICI); Ruaau TTT Community Project and the people of the Cook Islands.
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