Recycling tips and hints

·      Use separate bins or bags for waste and recyclables in the kitchen - it makes recycling easy.

·      Remember to recycle items from other rooms in your house. Try placing a separate bin in the bathroom, laundry or study.

·       Your normal household waste is collected every week and should go in the bin with black lid.  Place all recyclable items in your bin with a yellow lid. This will be emptied every two weeks. Make sure you do not include plastic shopping bags in with your recyclables.

·       You can find out your collection day by contacting the council on 3403 8888. You can also get a free reusable bag and use it to collect recyclables around the house or take it shopping and cut down on plastic bags.

·       You do not need to remove staples or the plastic window from envelopes, as this is done in the recycling process.

·      Tree trimming, grass, clippings and flowers are not recyclable, even though paper is made from woodchip. These items should either be turned into compost or placed in your general waste bin.

Why recycle?

For every ton of waste paper that gets recycled, 13 trees are saved. One job is created for every 500 tons of paper collected for recycling. Every year in Australia, we use about 3.5 million tons of paper and cardboard - enough to fill 160,000 semi-trailers. Paper can be recycled six times before it needs new fibers added.

What to know more about recycling?

Visit our website or call 3467 9809 to talk to our experts at the recycling center.

Understanding Humor

Many theories exist about what humor is and what social function it serves. The prevailing types of theories attempting to account for the existence of humor include psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider humor-induced behavior to be very healthy; spiritual theories, which may, for instance, consider humor to be a "gift from God"; and theories which consider humor to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.

The benign-violation theory, endorsed by Peter McGraw, attempts to explain humor's existence. The theory says 'humor only occurs when something seems wrong, unsettling, or threatening, but simultaneously seems okay, acceptable or safe’^.  Humor can be used as a method to easily engage in conversation by taking away that awkward, uncomfortable, or uneasy feeling of social interactions. Others claim that humor cannot or should not be explained. Author E.B. White once said, "Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.”

As with any art form, the acceptance of a particular style or incidence of humor depends on sociological factors and varies from person to person. Throughout history, comedy has been used as a form of entertainment all over the world, whether in the courts of the Western kings or the villages of the Far East. Both a social etiquette and a certain intelligence can be displayed through forms of wit and sarcasm.