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Tier 2: Middle o’ The Road (Intermediate Level)

Replace tissues and paper towels
with handkerchiefs, fabric napkins
and cleaning cloths

• If you buy and use handkerchiefs instead of tissues, you’ll
save heaps of tissue paper from being used and ending
up as waste material. It can be a cute accessory in a jacket
pocket, you can throw one in the laundry once you’ve used
it, and you’ll save on a squillion tissues in the process. For
guests, you can put hankies in a tissue box. See some good Biome, a Brisbane-based
hanky options here. Benefit Corporation sells a lot
of great, sustainably produced
alternatives to paper and
• You can also buy fabric napkins and re-use these, rather plastic products. You can see
their range of products here.
than using paper serviettes. These include the very handy
and reusable beeswax sheets,
so you can do away with
• Same goes with cleaning cloths rather than paper towels. plastic glad-wrap.
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Pouring boiling water onto cleaning cloths kills any bacteria
and leaves them smelling great.

Buy stuff in bulk to avoid buying
individually packaged items

“Buying in bulk rather than individual packages will save you lots of money and reduces plastic waste!
Packaging makes up 30% of the weight and 50% of trash by volume. Buy juice, snacks, and other lunch items
in bulk and use those reusable containers each day.”
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Recycle your old mobile phones
and computers

• You can use this site to recycle your old mobile phones

• This web-page shows all the places you can drop off your old computers and TVs to be recycled, including
at Officeworks in Belconnen, Fyshwick and Tuggeranong.

Switch your superannuation to
stop funding pollution

• Superannuation funds invest their members’ money in all sorts of different businesses, but only a few
super funds use a screening process to ensure that your money is not supporting things like

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