Morning Sir,
Greetings from the burning rubber capital of Oceania – and no, I’m not talking about doing doughnuts in the Aston Martin around the MCG after a few martinis. No, I’m talking stockpiles of tyres – those oil-derived must-haves that keep the wheels of cars, industry, just about everything, turning.
At 77 per cent recycling, South Australia’s container deposit scheme (CDS) is in the bottom third in terms of global performance. Most European (and a couple of US) schemes recover well over 90 per cent and Germany sits at 98 per cent. Assuming return rates are the arbiter of a scheme’s success, the recent SA draft CDS reform paper is welcome, providing a comprehensive assessment of the state’s CDS.
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The COP26 climate change summit was recently held in Glasgow. The reason we needed the summit was that we know how to pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere but singularly useless at getting it back out again. Australia releases more than 580MT per year of carbon dioxide equivalent into the global atmosphere. Up to 2.7 per cent of these greenhouse gas emissions are contributed by the waste sector.
By Gayle Sloan, Chief Executive Officer, WMRR
How different would our world be if we asked ourselves, “will the bin be the final destination” each time we made a purchase? This is the message that WMRR is spreading as part of National Recycling Week.
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Asahi Beverages, owner of Carlton & United Breweries, has joined Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and Lion as part of VicRecycle. VicRecycle is proposing to bid to become the Victorian CDS scheme co-ordinator.
Rabobank has released its Food and Farming Report that, among other insights, showed the average Australian household annual food waste bill is just over $1,038. Read more
A University of Adelaide study shows industry players are open to measures to reduce plastics in seafood – but first they have to understand the problem.
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