Environment Matters Spring/Summer 2022

YOU’LL NEED: badge-check glue or sticky tape badge-check scissors badge-check grocery store catalogues badge-check paper and pencils

Decorate your

kitchen caddy Use the art of decoupage to make your kitchen caddy beautiful – and remind your family what can go in the green lid FOGO bin!

Your existing kerbside green waste bin (lime green lid) is now a Food Organics Garden Organics (FOGO) service. Find out more at Ipswich.qld.gov.au/FOGO . Did you know FOGO includes not only fruit and vegetable scraps and garden clippings, but also things like meat scraps and dairy, paddle pop sticks and receipts, and even pet hair and pet poo! Cut out images of these items out of grocery store catalogues or draw pictures and stick the images to your FOGO kitchen caddy.

The seedling logo on any product means that it meets Australian

standards for compostable and biodegradable plastics. You can put products with this logo in your FOGO bin. Cut out this logo and stick it to your FOGO caddy.

DID YOU KNOW?

Wind speeds can be described using the ‘Beaufort wind force scale’ The scale describes the force of wind by a series of numbers 0 to 17. 0 means calm, 6 describes strong winds, and 12 is a hurricane with widespread damage. The scale is named after Sir Francis Beaufort of the British Royal Navy, who devised the method in 1805 to help create procedures for setting sails on a warship. It remains a widely used system today, useful for estimating wind power without a wind instrument.

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