In 2013 Sustainability Victoria undertook bin audits throughout Victoria to take a look at the sorts of things thrown into household bins. Below is an infographic representing the garbage bin composition by weight as percentage: So by the looks…
We have been talking a lot about food waste lately and to tie in with the Food Recovery Hierarchy and more specifically the second tier - ‘Feed People In Need’, let’s take a look at a local meals program run…
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Our Engineering Services division are always busy manufacturing new custom made waste equipment such as compactors, lifters, tipplers and other site specific bins. Equipment can be tailored to suit a customer’s specific needs. Here are just a couple of pieces…
Instead of going straight to the rubbish bin with items that you have finished with or that may have broken ask yourself “could this be reused?” To give you some ideas on how you can reuse or re purpose everyday…
In Australia we have most likely heard the term ‘Waste Hierarchy’ which focuses on the aspects ‘Avoid’, ‘Reuse’, Recycle’. While this is great as a guide for waste management practices when it comes to food waste I feel like it…
In Australia we throw away 1 million tonnes of plastic waste to landfill each year! While many types of plastic food and beverage packaging can be recycled it’s still obviously preferable to avoid the use altogether if possible. And that’s…
Back in January we covered off a couple of unlikely items that can be recycled thanks to the organisation Terracycle. Now Terracycle offers even more recycling programmes for unlikely items. We all use toothpaste, toothbrushes etc and probably don’t even…