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Please note: your general waste bin may have a blue or red lid depending on what could area you are in.
Waste is something that is no longer useful or wanted, that can’t be recycled, reused or recovered in any way. These items will end up being sent to landfill.
Examples of waste include:
All of the items that we use and consume; eg. cars, buildings, clothes, food, containers, and furniture, are made from our environment and use natural resources like water, coal, oil or wood. If these products aren’t reused or recycled and sent to landfill, then new material has to come from our environment to create new products. This uses energy, water and other natural resources. Greenhouse gases, which contribute to climate change, are created by the production and transport of materials as well as through rotting organic material in landfill. There is also less and less space available for landfill sites.
Avoiding waste is the best option for the environment, then reducing, reusing and recycling as depicted by the waste management hierachy below;
The waste management hierarchy
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These top ten waste avoidance tips will save you money as well as saving the planet.
Download the flyers below for more information on ways you can avoid, reduce and re-use your waste.
Click here to download the “Why waste it? When you can avoid and reduce it” flyer
Click here to download the “Why waste it? When you can re-use it.” flyer
South Australia has a goal to recycle 70% of all of the waste we produce. Most of our waste can be recycled in some way. Plastic, glass, metal, paper and cardboard as well as food and garden organics can be recycled in your household bins. East Waste also collects larger items such as furniture, and some electrical goods through the hard waste collection. Many of the items collected as hard waste are also able to be recycled.
Find out what items can be recycled through your yellow lidded recycling bin
Find out what items can be recycled/composted through our green organics bin
Find out what items are recycled through the hard waste service
You can search for any item on Recycle Near You website to see where you can recycle it in your suburb.
Waste collected in your blue or red lidded bins is taken to waste processing facilities and placed into landfill. The landfill sites are large holes dug into the ground, where rubbish is compacted and then covered over with soil once the site is full. Pipes are used to extract the gases released as organic material breaks down in the landfill site. This gas can be used to generate electricity.
Find out ‘which bin’ your household materials should be placed in.
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