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ENVIRONMENT
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We all know that the environment is struggling to cope with the amount of hard-fill going into rubbish dumps these days. Councils are spending more and more money each year, collecting unwanted and recyclable material. The City of Onkaparinga's kerbside recycling program retrieves over 4,000 tonnes of material each year to be used for productive purposes rather than deposited into landfill sites. The Original Open Market Inc. is also aware of the impact rubbish makes on the environment. The amount of refuse taken to dumps is horrendous. That is why the market encourages everyone to take their unwanted household goods to the market and not to the rubbish tip. Grandmother's meat safe is not rubbish for the dump. Neither is Great Grandfather's kerosene lamp or Great Grandmother's hat pin. All those baby clothes stacked away in cupboards with the unwanted toys should never be dumped just because you don't know what else to do with them. These unwanted items at home could well be snapped up by someone looking for just what you want to get rid of. Who knows, a collector might want that Huon pine meat safe or someone else could be looking for something useful or unusual. Maybe someone just needs a couple of lounge chairs to sit on, instead of the old kitchen chairs at home. This is another form of recycling. The trite saying of one person's trash is another's treasure is never more true. That doesn't mean that people are trying to sell rubbish. Quite the reverse. Although the person who does not want the item might think of it as rubbish, someone else might desperately need the item but cannot afford to go to a shop for it. Many items from deceased Estates find there way to the dump because those who are left with it do not realise that it can be turned into cash. Poor old mum's Grindley or Meakin cups and saucers or odd plates from her dinner set should never be put in the dump. Dad's old bike and kit bag all deserve a better fate than landfill. Admittedly, not all of it would be of collectable or antique value but many people could need it. There are many young couples, trying to set up home, who visit the market for those first pots and pans, crockery, cutlery, bedding and clothes. Give them a chance to buy them cheaply and you raise money from your unwanted items. It is easier than you think. But it is not only items from deceased Estates that can be taken to the market, we all have items at home that have been pushed to the back of the cupboard and forgotten. Dig them out. That old kitchen table that the charity shop will not take could well find a new home if you take it to the market. The Original Open Market encourages you not to spade those items into the ground but trade them! Re-use those plastic shopping bags to help your customers take their purchases home with them. The environment will thank you as will those people who buy from you.
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