Australia’s Packaging Waste Targets 2025: Everything You Need To Know
The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) first established the 2025 Packaging Waste Targets in 2018. These targets require the government, industries, and people to work together and systematically change how the country produces and recycles product packaging. They have become Australia’s significant waste management objectives, set to help the [...]
Australia’s National Plastics Plan 2021: Everything You Need To Know
Australia’s National Plastics Plan 2021 will open doors for a more extensive approach to reducing plastic waste in the country. Following the National Plastics Summit in March 2020, the government developed this large scale plan to address the life-long issues brought by plastic wastes. Read on to know more [...]
Burning Rubbish Vs Burying Rubbish: What’s Most Effective
The importance of proper waste management cannot be undermined especially given the state of the world that we live in today. Australians produce at least 65 million tons of rubbish per year. The widely accepted environmentally friendly waste management methods like reducing, repairing, recycling, reusing and refusing have minimised [...]
Is Taking Bottles & Cans From Someone’s Bin A Crime?
As the NSW Return and Earn Initiative started to heat up with warm participation from the community, a new issue has also emerged. There are a number of reports stating that privately-owned recycling and garbage bins are scavenged for empty bottles and cans. All around New South Wales, residents [...]
5 Best Ways To Dispose of Scrap Metal
Metals are valuable materials that can be recycled without losing their properties. That is why some people are encouraged to collect scrap metal and sell it to recycling companies. Aside from the monetary benefit, recycling scrap metals allows us to protect the environment by avoiding the acquisition of raw materials. Therefore, [...]
5 Reasons Why Asbestos Is Dangerous
In general, asbestos is not thought to be harmful. However, when the material is disturbed or damaged, it becomes hazardous. Asbestos fibres enter the body most commonly by inhaling or ingesting the material. Once ingested or inhaled, these dust or fibres will become lodged in the mucous membranes of [...]
Paul’s Ultimate Guide To Rubbish Removal Services
The truth is, waste will always be around for every city, state or place. As human beings consume goods and acquire products, waste is a result of living activities. No location or living thing doesn’t produce at least one kind of rubbish regularly. The real problem happens when rubbish [...]
We Are Still Operating During Sydney’s Lockdowns
Paul's Rubbish Removal will still be operating through Sydney's lockdown restrictions, from Monday 19th July 2021 ~ Saturday 31st July 2021. All our rubbish removal services will be conducted in a contactless manner where you will not be required to be on-site. Should you wish to be on-site or [...]
10 Tips to Personal & Household Hygiene in Sydney’s Lockdown
In an effort to combat an unseen but lethal adversary, the government imposed stricter controls on the largest COVID-19 outbreak this year. Aside from the usual social distancing, harsher penalties have been enacted, particularly for businesses that violate any of the protocols. We've been fighting the virus for over [...]