Plastic is one of the most common pollutants in the world. Since it is cheap and widely available for production, it is the most obvious and easiest choice for packaging. Australia is one of the worst-case scenarios in its plastic waste situation. According to WWF Australia, “Australia produces almost 3 million tonnes of plastic [...]
The NSW government extended the budget for the Waste Less, Recycle More Initiative with $337 million for 2017-2021. The program aims to modernise the waste sector with more recycling services to the community and ensure a clean environment. Specifically, it has the following objectives: Encourage local communities to waste avoidance and recycle. Prevent littering [...]
Reports of widespread delays in the collection of rubbish bins have been reported in various Sydney councils in the past couple of months. The recent wave of the outbreak of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus affecting staff shortages is pointed out to be the cause of the rubbish collection stoppages. What started [...]
Do you have potentially dangerous chemicals in your homes that you need to dispose of? The presence of harmful chemicals or substances can have severe repercussions to you and your family if you don’t attend to their disposal immediately. In addition, we tend to accumulate most of these hazardous chemicals over time and not [...]
Look around your home, your drawers, to be exact. We know you see a pile of obsolete and broken gadgets. Why is your first phone still there? We’re often told that mixing our electronic wastes (E-wastes) with general rubbish is harmful. That’s true. These gadgets have built-in batteries containing toxic chemicals. Later on, these [...]
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While enjoying an extravagant meal on your dining table, you probably don’t even think where your food packages and leftovers will end up. Any rubbish we produce, unfortunately, starts to fill up every corner of sanitary landfills. Much worse, thrown debris might end up in your footpath and outdoor spaces. In only two years, [...]
Waste volumes in Sydney are always skyrocketing. Councils and leaders are currently on the lookout for new ways to handle waste. It’s not easy to find methods that encompass disposal and recycling of all kinds of waste. Moreover, it’s a national investment and local effort to put up waste plants that are beneficial for [...]
If you are getting started with your journey to recycling, a few tips and reminders are always helpful. These tricks can help you in making recycling easier. A majority of the waste management method includes sorting trash. Be an expert in segregating trash to lessen future efforts you’ll need. The spare energy and time [...]
