{"id":15512,"date":"2020-07-14T14:15:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T03:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanless.com.au\/?p=15512"},"modified":"2020-06-30T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T03:19:49","slug":"queensland-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanlesswm.com\/news\/queensland-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bundaberg to Ebenezer: Queensland’s recycling stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recycling starts young in the Owen family. Nine year old Owen is already a recycling role model for many others in the Bundaberg region in Queensland.<\/p>\n

So far he\u2019s recycled almost 30,000 items, saving the proceeds to buy his first car when he\u2019s old enough. Owen\u2019s recycling drive originates from the love he and his family have for the Great Outdoors and seeing first-hand the impact littering has on the environment.<\/p>\n

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Owen\u2019s mum, Tahlee Taylor, said her son started noticing litter when he was as young as three.<\/p>\n

She said the Containers for Change program, where people got 10 cents for every empty container provided, was a great incentive that enabled everyone to earn some money while also doing the right thing for the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like going to the beach, camping and fishing. I just don\u2019t get it,\u201d Owen said referring to people who threaten the lives of wildlife by throwing empty cans and bottles and other plastics into the region\u2019s waterways.<\/p>\n

Owen encourages others to do the right thing and protect the environment – to donate your cans to Owen and to arrange a collection visit his Facebook page, Owen\u2019s Recycling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a message shared by the proposed Wanless Recycling Parking<\/a> in Ebenezer, Queensland. The company\u2019s vision is to transform this degraded site into a productive precinct that generates employment and training opportunities for the local community. This is a model they have tried and tested at\u00a0 Sydney Recycling Park<\/a>,\u00a0where up to 80% of waste is now diverted from landfill. The innovative resource recovery hub’s development application has been submitted to council.<\/p>\n

Here’s the full story<\/a> on Owen Taylor’s excellent recycling skills, and check out thelatest Wanless Recycling Park newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recycling starts young in the Owen family. Nine year old Owen is already a recycling role model for many others in the Bundaberg region in Queensland. So far he\u2019s recycled almost 30,000 items, saving the proceeds to buy his first car when he\u2019s old enough. Owen\u2019s recycling drive originates from the love he and his… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":15513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,17],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanlesswm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanlesswm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanlesswm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanlesswm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanlesswm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15512"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wanlesswm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15519,"href":"https:\/\/wanlesswm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512\/revisions\/15519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanlesswm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanlesswm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanlesswm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanlesswm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}