ANU desperate for green cred?

I notice no proud statement of the benches being produced locally or even in Australia. I wonder how far the waste from ANU needed to be shipped for repurposing? That little detail could potentially make a mockery of what already appears to be a token gesture.

The only thing more pleasant than riding a bicycle is being able to do it in a skirt because it’s spring.

dungfungus said :

“It’s lovely on a bicycle”

If you don’t get chased by a possum or a feral rabbit.

Usually you are more concerned about hitting a student too preoccupied in updating their facebook page to notice, well, anything.

dungfungus said :

“It’s lovely on a bicycle”

If you don’t get chased by a possum or a feral rabbit.

Or a duck. Don’t forget the hoards of angry wood ducks.

“It’s lovely on a bicycle”

If you don’t get chased by a possum or a feral rabbit.

tim_c said :

If the ANU really cared about the environment half as much as they pretend to, they’d do something about the roads going through/around the place – virtually the whole way around the place, you are either braking or accelerating again (just after braking) – there seem to be no roads where you just drive along maintaining speed. And all the kerbs are black with tyre marks, indicating that a lot of tyres are being wasted by people driving around there too.

I think they’re trying to help the environment by discouraging you from driving in the first place.

It’s lovely on a bicycle.

If the ANU really cared about the environment half as much as they pretend to, they’d do something about the roads going through/around the place – virtually the whole way around the place, you are either braking or accelerating again (just after braking) – there seem to be no roads where you just drive along maintaining speed. And all the kerbs are black with tyre marks, indicating that a lot of tyres are being wasted by people driving around there too.

Pork Hunt said :

Is up-cycled a name for re-cycling on slightly higher moral ground?

I’ve only seen the term used on Etsy.com to describe where people have repurposed old things into other things. (Sadly this often involves a hot glue gun and some sequins.)

poetix said :

I don’t think that the up-cycled tables are a bad thing. At least that waste is not in landfill.

This is down-cycling, not up-cycling. The benches will end up in landfill when they degrade. The benches are made of plastic with inferior properties compared to the material that went into it.

poetix said :

And putting a a plaque doesn’t seem too bad an idea either. I can’t really see the problem.

No problem, just a bit pointless. Hardly bragging rights is it? “We chipped in some waste plastic to these benches.” I wonder what connection the ANU had to these outside of that contribution.

poetix said :

Pork Hunt said :

Is up-cycled a name for re-cycling on slightly higher moral ground?

Recycling with a view…

Or at least a view to making something better. Beat your cans into handbags and knit your plastic bags into voodoo dolls.

That last one sounds a bit challenging.

Sounds like a job for Mr G but I want mine for free. In fact, how about a plastic bag voodoo doll of a potential juror clapped in irons for contempt of court…
Fun for all ages.

Pork Hunt said :

Is up-cycled a name for re-cycling on slightly higher moral ground?

Recycling with a view…

Or at least a view to making something better. Beat your cans into handbags and knit your plastic bags into voodoo dolls.

That last one sounds a bit challenging.

I wonder how much they cost to produce

Is up-cycled a name for re-cycling on slightly higher moral ground?

I don’t think that the up-cycled tables are a bad thing. At least that waste is not in landfill. Or in the lake. And putting a a plaque doesn’t seem too bad an idea either. I can’t really see the problem.

First time I’ve used the word up-cycled, which my daughter just taught me.

Well, if the ANU are fair-dinkum about “green-cred” they could also get rid of the feral rabbit colony in the bushes and lawns behind The Tank theatre on the Acton Campus.
The possums are bad enough but at least they are native.
And let’s not hear any of that “the rabbits were brought to Australia against their will so they have a right to be here” crap.