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A Load Of Considerations

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Hello again. As we're heading into the middle of the year, this I feel will be worth sharing since earlier this year. So earlier, I took up a challenge to create a 3-dimensional object using paper and/or even cardboard through the SECAN arts hub. And this has been an intriguing part to open up another medium of art and even more avenues. And with the 2 years since I've taken up art again, my momentum has steadily been growing with the total of 5 art exhibitions participated and counting, having my Instagram account to showcase my artistic talents and considering how Australia isn't that cultural, it has helped me build up my purpose in life among other things. But still, not everything is straight forward. Although I'll continue with my art, hurdles and barriers can get in my way such as employment, building up a bigger social life and perhaps, some indication of potential home ownership. And to make things hard, not knowing where to go is the problem and at some point,...

If Recycling Is A 'Scam'

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Hello everyone. This'll be good to pick your brains. Throughout the dawn of our civilisation, the early people gather materials to make anything to survive and improve their lives in many ways. With discoveries of metallic ores in particular which they got smelted, they became tools, weapons, useful materials for construction and even money. It's worth looking at this mine rich in iron deposits and along with metallurgical coal, we create steel and use its applications since the iron age. And then, we have copper especially for our power needs along with aluminium, gold and other resources such as wood for timber and paper productions and crude oil for plastic products. However, there are environmental costs with the amount of energy used to extract resources, waste pollution and worse still a risk of scarcity making items we all use. With the idea of recycling, anything no longer useful can be recovered, broken down and processed to create new products. With that, recycling sa...