While the craze for recycling goes on, you might think it’s the best way to reduce all our waste. But it is not the real score, though. The waste hierarchy can guide you to a series of preferences— from the most favourable to the least preferred actions— in reducing all your waste. Every year, each…
The zero-waste campaign keeps picking up the pace, particularly with millennials and families getting increasingly prominent. The change now goes well beyond remembering to switch our lifestyle and separate our rubbish into a recycling container, to reduce waste contamination and probably reverse the effect on the environment. Maintaining a zero-waste household can be difficult when…
Some people consider that zero-waste method is merely for restricting the use of products that can create waste. However, this method can also be beneficial in disposing of unwanted furniture or large items without sending it to landfills. Furniture is bulky, heavy, and difficult to transport, which makes it hard to remove the large item…
We never aim to submit any waste to landfills. We decrease what we need, reuse as much as we can, send little for recycling, and compost what we can’t. All of that, it establishes a no waste strategy at home with the idea of challenging ourselves to commit to zero waste lifestyle. This simply means…
Due to the continuous rise in residential and commercial buildings around the globe, it is an undeniable fact that construction and demolition (C&D) waste are also increasing in numbers. According to RMIT University, Australia produced about 20 million tonnes of C&D debris and dumped 33% of it in landfills between 2016 and 2017. And no,…
You may not think about the effect of the waste you’re throwing out, but collectively, it’s massive. If we don’t make significant changes to how we treat waste, we will send more than 200,000 tons of waste to landfills every year by 2030. As waste is buried, it decomposes over time and emits greenhouse gases…
Due to the advancements in technology, as well as our reliance on it, most of the items found in our homes are now electrical. Inevitably, you will need to dispose of your electrical rubbish when their product life comes to end. Many homeowners, however, find e-waste disposal difficult because they are not sure how to…
We consider schools as our second home, where we gain knowledge and understanding of how to survive and succeed in the real world. It is ideal to keep our learning environment clean and orderly. Like our home, we must keep our school sanitary and clutter-free. One way to do so is to avoid littering. Littering…
When you have piles of junk at home, you probably thought of cleaning and getting rid of those unusable items. Since no one wants to live with junk, your eagerness to wipe out every piece of trash in your home strengthens. Junk comes in many shapes and sizes. From a stack of old newspapers in…
The world throws trillions of cigarette butts into the environment every year. These cigarette litters are everywhere, along with green spaces, sidewalks, roadsides, beaches, and waterways. If you see cigarette filters on Australia’s streets, remember that you see some parts of the country’s 7 billion littered every year. Millions of chain smokers still exist worldwide…
