One finds Salvation Army thrift stores everywhere in Australia. Along with the bustling flea-markets, weekend garage sales and sales of old textbooks in schools, these are all are expressions of Australian people's awareness of the value of things. Volume 199 of Taiwan's Commonwealth Magazine carried an article by Yang Ma-li entitled "Canberra Prepares for Zero Garbage Plan."
本地更隨處可見救世軍賣舊貨的小鋪，熱熱鬧鬧的跳蚤市場，周末鄰居的車庫大拍賣及學校裡舊教科書的買賣，都是澳洲人惜物的表現，天下雜誌一九九期中登載楊瑪利報導的「坎培拉迎接零垃圾計畫」一文，可見澳洲致力環保的決心！