"China has been a major destination for Australia's recycled waste, with around 1.3 million tonnes exported in 2016–17. This accounted for 4 per cent of Australia's total recyclable waste, but included significant amounts of recyclable plastics and recyclable paper (35 per cent and 30 per cent of Australia's totals)."
A lot of the themes and messages in Avatar are very common in science fiction, in particular the parallels with the story of Dune are striking:
- greedy corporation seeks to exploit a resource with little regard for the native population (spice/unobtainium)
- saviour from same race as greedy corporation is accepted into native population and through a mythical prophecy, becomes leader and unites tribes against greedy corporation
- native population and their natural habitat are massively underestimated and through help of saviour defeat greedy corporation
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