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Social Studies - Stuff Article

STUFF Article

What % of rubbish can cause a recycling truck to be dumped?

- Trucks containing more than 10% of rubbish have to dump their contents. Since May 4th last year 1960 truckloads of recycling have ended up up at the Kate Valley landfill, costing the council and ratepayers about $1.9m. 

What is going into peoples recycling bins?

- There are still people putting items that belong in the red bins, that don't belong in the recycling bins. There are items such as bagged waste, soft plastics, that don't belong in the recycling. Since it has been happening to has caused problems for the organisations that help and deals with our everyday waste.  

What is the current penalty?

- Bins have been removed from the city council due to the amount of rubbish and waste that has ended up in the wrong bins due to the lazy people. It has been happening all around the country. Many other people have received warnings because of their recycling habits.  

English - Creative Writing Matrix (Random Wikipedia)

Random Wikipedia Article

1) Garret Barry (Piper) was born in 1837, during the great famine.

2) A disease caused him to loose his sight as a young child. 

3) Barry died in 1899, he was Irish and blind among the most famous players of the 19th century.

4) Barry was a popular and respected musician travelling his region to play at house dances.

5) Barry was raised on a farm in the townland of Kylea called 'Inagh Parish' on the shores of Cloonmackan Lough, in an area known as the Garden of Willows.

6) He inspired many later pipers such as Willie Clancy.

7) There is no record of him exists other than certification of his death as a 52 year old bachelor in 1999.

8) Its possible that Garret Barry travelled in Country Kerry in his younger years.

9) An old neighbour of the Barry family claimed that Garret Barry had received some torturing from a Kerry Piper. 

10) Garret Barry was obliged to learn poetic or musical skills in order to earn a living. 

English - The Hunters Swoop

 

  1. 1 sentence - top left hand corner:

- The small bright moon is lighting up the white clouds in the distance over the horizon

2. 1 sentence - top right hand corner: 

- The bright white clouds are spreaded out just above the water with a dark, blue sky hovering over the clouds in the distance.

3. 1-2 descriptive sentences - bottom of the image:

- The bottom of the grey rusted spaghetti can is sinking in the sparkling, clear, shallow blue water.  

4. 1-2 descriptive sentences - middle of the image:

- The poor lonely Guinea Pig is surrounded out of no-where inside a silver cold spaghetti can wondering how it is going to survive going home in the middle of heaven.  

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