when i think about it , i payed council rates that covered my garbage disposal i also payed water rates to dispose of my sewage so in effect we are already paying to dispose of some of our rubbish (levy /tax same as) the sewerage goes thru a treatment plant and comes out the other end as clean water with a solid by product that can be used for many things from fertilizer to making diesel fuel (not commercially viable when i seen it being done ) a lot of methane gas is another by product how do we treat our other rubbish to make it neutral ? if it requires some sort of processing plant where will it go ? even the save the planet people don't want it in their back yard . i stated previously that NSW was at one point sending their rubbish by B-DOUBLE to QLD because it was cheaper to dump it there than process it in NSW . some one is/was making a couple of dollars. what about asbestos, any demolition /renovations containing asbestos they charge extra but in most cases it gets treated as standard rubbish , or in some cases large amounts dumped on rural blocks to become someone else's problem later
if we are going to remove things from our lives that we now find are detrimental ,what are we going to replace them with ?
There are lots of initiatives or potential initiatives that can reduce and reuse that waste. It just needs people and the government to support those initiatives:
Australian Paper's energy-from-waste project in Latrobe Valley receives federal funding boost
There are lots of initiatives or potential initiatives that can reduce and reuse that waste. It just needs people and the government to support those initiatives:
Australian Paper's energy-from-waste project in Latrobe Valley receives federal funding boost
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-29/energy-from-waste-latrobe-valley-construction-starts-soon/10102719
Human waste turned into renewable energy at Australia's first biosolids gasification plant
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-27/qld-logan-council-biosolids-gasification-plant-human-waste/101016840
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-02/green-coal-noxious-weed-to-become-carbon-neutral-energy-source/100958326
Global company to transform Australian recycling with $260-million plant in NSW Central West
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-04/recycling-plant-parkes-nsw-central-west-/100879006
Here's what you can do with old clothes you can't donate
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/recycling-clothes-you-cant-donate/11005522
Australia's first national recycling scheme for household batteries launches
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-15/national-recycling-battery-product-stewardship-economics/100829954
Victoria's first seaweed farm aims to reduce livestock emissions
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-02-12/seaweed-to-reduce-cow-methane-emissions-port-phillip/100819694
Blue-sky thinking: Net zero aviation is more than a flight of fantasy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-20/blue-sky-net-zero-aviation-more-than-flight-fantasy/100704820
Landfill waste turned into commercial-grade petrol, diesel in CQUniversity project
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-09/landfill-waste-commercial-grade-diesel-petrol-fuel-project-cqu/100647952
Could unwanted cotton clothing be diverted from landfill and recycled on farms?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-19/circular-cotton-initiative-recycling-into-soil/100632834
The Barcaldine brothers' journey to a renewable energy precinct planned for outback Queensland
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-10/qld-outback-barcaldine-renewable-energy/100436900
Hello poo-powered dairies, goodbye recycling bins: The region emerging as a green hub
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-01/nsw-south-coast-emerging-as-alternative-energy-hub/100329204
Germany is shutting down its coal industry for good, so far without sacking a single worker
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-18/australia-climate-how-germany-is-closing-down-its-coal-industry/11902884
Coal-rich Hunter Valley ponders jobs future as Asian giants commit to net-zero carbon emissions
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-02/coal-transition-climate-change-hunter-region/13109642
Logan City turning human waste into energy in move to go carbon neutral within two years
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-12/logan-city-aims-to-use-poo-power-human-waste-to-energy/12748782
Coronavirus pandemic sees charities and retailers work together to divert excess stock from landfill
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-29/charities-save-retail-goods-from-landfill/12397678
You may need to search these yourself breviary since of the hypertext links might not work.
Enjoy.
it would appear that it is the other waste that is the problem
Those are just stories that I saved because I thought that they were interesting and now I'm able to share them.
Here's another one that I just read that recycles chemical waste into drugs and fertilizers:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317146-chemical-waste-can-be-recycled-into-a-range-of-drugs-and-fertilisers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=currents
-- Edited by Buzz Lightbulb on Sunday 8th of May 2022 04:22:37 PM