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Trainee takes path towards helping others Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au
More than a uniform job: Student Ashcka Woods, centre, settles into a day at Mornington Peninsula CIU with help from Naishadh Gadani, Lind Frew, Stephen McKenzie, Miro Majstorovic and Peter Drake. Picture: Yanni
A YOUNG Mornington woman who “always wanted to help people” is the first to enter a traineeship program at Mornington Peninsula CIU. Victoria Police launched the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school-based traineeships in 2017 and the program is said to have “made great strides” since then. The program is designed for students completing years 10, 11 or 12 who are interested in a career with Victoria Police and is available at several police stations around the state. Ashcka Woods, 18, a Year 12 student at Mornington Secondary College, is completing the program as part of her Certificate III in Business. She is settling in at Somerville CIU, the first unit in the state to participate. “The program gives young people insights into the organisation and an opportunity to learn and work at a local police station before they can find an employment pathway for themselves,” Detective Senior Sergeant Miro Majstorovic said. Ashcka describes herself as a “caring person”. Continued Page 10
Recycling back, but more trouble looms Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au RECYCLED material collected by Mornington Peninsula Shire is set to resume being “processed” instead of being taken to landfill. Bans on the shire’s recycling processor SKM were lifted late last month and infrastructure services executive manager Jessica Wingad was late last week hoping to have “an update and timeframe for when our recycling will start to be processed again in the coming days”. “Once our recycling processing resumes, the shire will be able to confirm
the total quantity of recyclable material sent to landfill as a result of the shutdown,” she said. The recycling processor was unable to take waste from the shire because of dangerous stockpiling in the wake of China’s refusal to take more waste plastic from Australia. However, the announcement of SKM returning to normal services comes at the same time that India has banned waste from Australia. India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia helped reduce the impact of China’s ban by accepting more of Australia’s recyclable rubbish. Further problems in dealing with recyclables are now likely with India’s
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worldwide. More than one million mobile phones and 16 million TVs are discarded in Australia every year. It is estimated that just for televisions and computers, the amount of e-waste generated in Australia will grow from around 138,000 tonnes in 2012-13 to 223,000 tonnes in 2023-24. “With today’s unprecedented pace in technology upgrades, we are unfortunately living in an increasingly disposable age where even large ticket electrical items are discarded with far greater frequency than a generation ago,” Cr Gill said. “This reduced product life span and our tendency to either hoard or throw out these products with the regular rubbish, is having a devas-
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