Okay, so today is Halloween right? Now, who wouldn’t be excited for that? Well, let’s list the people who wouldn’t be excited.

1. Me, since I have never celebrated Halloween and whenever it comes, my dad closes, and locks, the gate so no children can come down the driveway asking for lollies.
2. Anyone who doesn’t celebrate Halloween. They could possibly be the “Scrooge’s of Halloween.” But in my personal opinion, Halloween is no where near as fabulous as Christmas. So I wouldn’t entirely blame them. (No offence is intended to those who like, celebrate or enthusiastically join in the American tradition)
3. Eco friendly green people. You know, the type who really care about the environment, and how much waste is possibly being polluted on Halloween, thanks to all the little wrappers being thrown to the winds when the greedy fingers rip off the packaging just to get to the chocolate/ lollies.
4. Anyone who values their health, because according to Alex Orlov, in the ’13 Scary Halloween Health Stats’ there is 21% of children ages from 6-11 who’ve had tooth decay in their permanent teeth, 13.6 decayed or missing teeth surfaces the average adult (20-64) has. And, honestly! 41 million potential trick or treaters between the ages of 5 and 14- and that’s just in the US!! And 90 million pounds (40 823 313.3 kilograms) of chocolate bought during the week of Halloween.

Okay, sorry, please excuse me while I go to throw up. That is absolutely disgusting. But, yeah, sure I like chocolate, but 90 million pounds is disgusting, honestly- oh ew, I keep thinking about all that chocolate, lollies, rotting teeth, oh God, this is gonna give me nightmares. But, trying to keep on the original topic, all these wrappers are just going to fly off into the air, littering the ground, waiting for an unsuspecting animal to just come along, smell the goodness inside without even waiting for a second thought, it chews on the wrapper, and then it starts choking. (Right now is a bad/good, i don’t know what it would be for you, time to have a visual of a choking, dying animal) Then you think of your pets at home (if you have any), and think what would happen to you if your pet was dying because of something they happened to snuffle upon. If it was me, I would be quite upset. (Now you look into the eyes of the beloved animal you love dearly) Well, time to stop grabbing those wrappers and opt out for fresh lollies, with one bag, instead of the individually wrapped ones. Better for the mindless children to grab raw lollies instead of the obstacle with the wrappers. Come on guys, clean up your act.

Until next time, stay green.

It’s a new day today, I’m not really bothered with a greeting. And technically, it’s evening. Oh, I was going to tell you what my ‘fabulous’ idea was, wasn’t I? It’s simple, and really easy, some may think it’s stupid but.... well, my idea was, to make paper mache bowls, so we wouldn’t be wasting our money on new bowls whenever one broke, we would also be reducing the amount of newspaper, or any paper, that we usually throw away. So, yeah, that was my idea. But according to Solar Energy World, if every newspaper was recycled,we could save 250 million trees each year. 250 million! But I don’t think the American’s (no offence) are helping much, since they only recycle 27% of all newspapers. Huh, yeah, that’s not that great. Thanks for nothing, America. (Sorry, I probably shouldn’t be dissing the seventh wealthiest country in the world, (Australia is the tenth wealthiest) according to Global Finance) Anyway, I think I should really start digging into the topic of waste. SO. I went down to the park this afternoon. And pretty much as soon as you walked a couple of metres down the stairs, there was a blue plastic bag. And I hope you can guess what was in it, cause I really don’t want to tell. :( Ew. Yeah, and just for fun, I’ll stick the picture in and see what you think. :) I’m nice like that. I mean, seriously, think about it. How hard is it to simply take a little bag of dog poop around with you, I mean, get another plastic bag so you don’t have to touch it. Or just not have a dog. Like me. I mean, I would love to have a dog. But my mum and dad both don’t want one, and my point about having a dog should have been proven as soon as my auntie and uncle came to visit for the long weekend, because, they’d been traveling, in a car/trailer/tent, so they’d been doing that and now they had turned around and they were starting to head back home and they came and visited us. And they have a dog. It is seriously one of the cutest dogs ever, especially when you’re sitting down and he just comes over to you and puts his head in your lap. This Dalmatian is one of the cutest I’ve ever come across. But really, I haven’t come across many. And honestly, my dad loved that dog, and that dog loved him, so I don’t see why we still don’t have a dog! (I'll put another picture in for you to see how cute he is!) And honestly? As long as I had gloves and a plastic bag, I’d take the dog for a walk everyday, but I’m not one of those mindless people who decide to hang it off a branch for the whole world to see. It just shows that they don’t even care about the environment. And come on, who doesn’t love the environment?! Well, I will talk more tomorrow. :)

Until next time, stay green.

Hey there,
Today, and for the span of a couple of weeks, I’m going to be talking about a well known topic, and if you read my blog from yesterday, you will see that I was complaining about the amount of waste in the environment. That’s one thing I’m good at. Complaining. But, my sister is the queen of complaining, since she complains about, well, everything. Including the, ‘I don’t feel like going to work where all this rubbish is thrown into the same bin instead of having different bins for the different types of rubbish being thrown away...” And things like that. Okay, I exaggerated, I added the same bin topic. But it’s true, and it would be so helpful if places like McDonald’s and KFC and Hungry Jacks.... I mean, I’ve only been to Hungry Jacks once, and that time it was a friend’s birthday party and I can hardly remember it. But, seriously. How many times have you gone into one of these places, ordered food, eaten most of it, but most of the time something is left? For my family, that doesn’t happen very often, I mean, we barely go to the junk food galore places because... the truth? We don’t have much time anymore. We usually get take away food on the weekends, and during the week, my mum goes to the trouble of making different meals for us.              
   Except Wednesday’s. They are my cooking days and that’s when I have to cook for the family, since I’m the only daughter who does Home Ec anymore. But, back on topic, when we get, say, pizza, we have the garlic bread foil, the brown paper bag the garlic bread comes in, the pizza boxes,  and a soft drink bottle. And we have the three bins, the green lidded one, the yellow one and the black one. More rightly known as the recycle bin, green waste bin and general rubbish bin, by my mum and dad’s words. But it would usually be sorted as pizza boxes and soft drink bottle in the recycle bin and the brown paper bag and foil would go into the ‘general rubbish’ bin. So that’s how environmentally bin friendly I get, but seriously, you know there is more to it than that. I can easily manage to fill up a recycle bin with plastics.... that’s not really a good thing though, is it? It’s in a fortnight though! Well... that’s kind of... awkward... Anyway! My whole family know that I am doing this, that I’m writing all this information, all these, raves? Complaints? Really, I don’t know what you’d call this, but this is what it is.
   And the amount of rubbish that we throw away is disgusting. Start reusing things or find things that you could reuse to make something, create something! Honestly? On Friday, I was sitting in my Global (Social Studies) class and this weird thought just popped into my head. I immediately told my friend, who actually thought it was a pretty good idea. And then my teacher came over, and we were discussing my fabulous idea... sorry, I’m getting off topic. Oh, you want to know what my fabulously amazing idea was? I’ll never tell... in this... letter? No, I’ll tell you next time... teaser! Or as they call it in books, a cliff-hanger, hopefully you approve of my seriously bad one. If I ever write a book and get it published, I promise that my cliff-hangers will always be better than this one. :)

Until next time, stay green.

I'm going to get straight to the point. Talking about the environment, and making sure we ake care of it is something that is, in my opinion, everybody's business. We all live on this Earth, yet this is one of the things that we take the least care for. You'd think that everyone would want to take care of this beautiful planet, since it's the only one we've got, yet everyone would see to destroying it, without really knowing. Yes, that may sound bad, but everyone should know that every bit of plastic, every glass bottle, every piece of paper used; that's killing the environment, because when you throw that away, it goes on a trip to the dump. No one really gives a thought to where their rubbish goes after it is thrown into the bin, and on the days that the rubbish truck comes to collect your rubbish, it's on the rubbish truck; and after that, it's 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind.' No one really thinks about what happens to their rubbish after it disappears. Well, let me tell you.

First, you use as much paper, plastic, cardboard, food; then you just throw it in your rubbish bin. It's right about now you think, 'This has nothing to do with me, I just throw out my rubbish, and it's done.' Well, it's not done, because then, after that, it goes on the journey all the way to the rubbish dump. After that, there are several things that could happen to the things that you so carelessly threw away.
Incineration: It gets burnt which emits toxins into the air, which people have to constantly breathe in, if they live near a dump
Landfill: It's turned into landfill where it get's covered up by dirt which then, having no access to oxygen or moisture, breaks down very slowly
Either way, this is killing land that we could be using for other things. And all that rubbish they burn, bury; that's something they could be reused, to make other things, like the Landfill Harmonic in Paraguay, South America. They made their own instruments out of recyclable materials, including a large oil can, bits of left over wood, forks, strings, anything that they could use to create music. This is an example of what all of us, what we, the people, should be doing. That is how it should be, not starting to live in the dump, instead of away from it.

Until next time, stay green.