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Waste and Recycling Overview
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• Inefficiency
• Lost resources/opportunities
• Environmental impact - greenhouse
gases & other pollution
Why focus on waste?
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Kerbside waste collection
56% garbage 30% recyclables 14% food scraps and garden waste
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490 kg garbage per house per year199 kg per person per year
490 kg
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Kerbside recycling
65% paper
28% glass and cans
7% plastic containers
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Australian annual plastics recycling rates
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Plastic Carry Bags
• Australians used 3.92 billion bags in 2005
• That’s 3,920,000,000 bags
• Approximately 180 bags per person
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An easy solution
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Over-packaging
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Some of the things households throw away
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The waste hierarchy
2 Reusing materials
3 Recycling & reprocessing materials
4 Energy recovery before disposing
5 No conservation of resources
1 Maximum conservation of resources
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Waste packaging (recyclable)
Recycling factory
New products delivered to
shops
Supermarket
Kerbside recycling collection
Products consumed at
home