Elia Poasa recycles used products in Wailoku
“I would like us all to make a serious commitment to respect and protect, to be attentive to every person and creation, to counter the culture of waste and disposability, [and] to promote a culture of solidarity and of encounter.” (Pope Francis. General Audience June 5th, 2013)
We as the Columban Spiritual Year community in Wailoku, Suva, Fiji, have been doing our best to counter the “culture of waste” or the “throw away” culture. We recycle products such as bottles, empty milk cartons, cans and paper. We reduced the use of plastics and we have separate bins to sort our recyclable products. Vegetable peelings, food wastes and other decomposable were put into a compost patch. These wastes decay, turn into soil and we used them as fertilizers in the vegetable and root crop gardens.
During my spiritual year I have come to an awareness that God is present in his creation.
As Fijians we are very much inter-connected to our environment and with creation. We depend on creation for survival and also for a sense of identity. During my spiritual year I have come to an awareness that God is present in his creation. We should trust in God with the way we depend on His creation, for our identity and our survival. God has freely given us His creation not to dominate it but to cultivate it. We are stewards of God’s Creation.
Elia Poasa is currently in his Spiritual Year in Suva, Fiji.
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