Meet Canberra's amazing can-collecting sisters

The Canberra Times

Arushi and Avni Natu are only eight and five but they have collected 50,000 cans to be recycled, using the refunds to donate $5000 to charities.  They have just won an environment award - and already promised to use the prize money to plant trees

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00:33 - So I found a couple of plastics at Stromlo

00:36 and at building sites and other local places.

00:41 And that's how we found everything.

00:47 So she's a good spotter.

00:51 She always knows where the plastic is.

00:54 Like when we're on our bike, she said,

00:57 "Oh, there's a plastic."

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01:04 - I like wrote letters to my neighbours.

01:23 I first did a draft and then I copied them

01:30 in my neatest writing.

01:32 And then they felt really happy

01:38 when I was doing this exciting project.

01:42 So they, you know, like helped me out

01:45 with my collecting plastic.

01:48 And now they put it on my front doorstep

01:52 and maybe write a little note there

01:56 to say well done.

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02:01 - We went to Stromlo Park on a hill.

02:09 We saw us, my dad saw plastic

02:14 with a box of cans and bottles

02:19 and we collected all of them.

02:23 And we found so much when we were going back

02:28 for a play at Stromlo Park.

02:34 So we collected all of them

02:38 and I helped my dad.

02:42 And when we went on the swings,

02:47 my dad saw one plastic under the swing

02:52 and then he picked it up

02:54 and put it in his office bag.

02:58 And then we went home.

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03:03 - So basically what I did was,

03:10 like when I won the $500,

03:14 I felt really excited

03:18 and I was like brainstorming all of these ideas

03:21 and I could not find a solution

03:24 because I had so many good ideas.

03:27 But then finally,

03:28 my dad, my sister and me decided

03:34 with a solution by building a forest

03:39 at the National Arboretum Canberra.

03:42 And so that, and that's how we,

03:47 you know, used our $500

03:51 to build a forest

03:55 and we call it the Nathoo Forest

03:58 'cause that's a last name.

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