Denmark’s Bottle Deposit Scheme 🍾: The Best In The World
Denmark Bottle Deposit 🍾: A staggering 93 per cent of bottles and cans were returned thanks to the Danish Deposit and Return System (Dansk Retursystem). Learn more about Denmark’s bottle deposit scheme and why it is a monumental success and renowned globally in this blog. Continue reading to learn more. If you ask me when the time to polish Australia’s waste reduction and recycling should come, I would always answer…
How Much Recyclable Materials End Up In Landfill? Is It Getting Worse? 🚯
How Much Recyclable Material Ends Up In Landfills? 🚯: At Waster, we often meet with potential customers who are very suspicious about recycling and how much recyclable material ends up in landfills. To be honest, some people really believe the whole recycling industry is a con job. As a result, we are often asked this particular question, “does recycling go to landfill?” >Download Now: Free PDF Business Owners Guide To Commingled…
MXene Lithium-Ion Battery: Mobile Phone And Recycling Innovation 🔋
MXene Lithium-Ion Battery 🔋: Mxene-based batteries have been making some noise recently on the Internet thanks to a recent discovery made by the leading engineers at RMIT University that pushed their lifespan from a few years to almost a decade. Learn more about the future of batteries and their innovation in this blog. As we discussed in our past blog about how battery recycling works, lithium-ion (we can also…
We Ask: Can You Recycle Spiral Notebooks? 📓
Can You Recycle Spiral Notebooks? 📓: Is it possible or not? What else can you do with them? Let us cover spiral notebook recycling below. Continue reading to learn more. Before laptops and tablets became the norm for kids in school, books and notebooks filled their bags. I remember the time when I was still a kid (which was a long time ago, if anyone is curious), I used to…
Waste Management In The Hospitality Industry 🏨
Waste Management In The Hospitality Industry 🏨: Many consider the hospitality industry (e.g., hotels, restaurants, pubs, clubs) as the number one producer of waste. Although this may seem unnoticeable in the past, many green environmentalists have now been much more vocal than ever, calling every industry out regarding their poor sustainability practices. This, of course, includes the hospitality industry. Correspondingly, the hospitality industry has come up with ways to reduce…
Who Are Currently The Best Countries At Recycling And How Does Australia Fare With Them? ♻️
Best Countries At Recycling ♻️: Not all countries are equal in recycling. Some countries recycle better than others. In this blog, we talk about the best of the best in terms of recycling. Additionally, we will see how Australia fares with these ‘best of the best’ recycling countries. From the first step up to the last, countries have been desperately making innovations to improve their sustainability. Recycling, in particular, has…
How Many Times Can Plastic Be Recycled? A Breakthrough In Recycling Discovered? ♻️
How Many Times Can Plastic Be Recycled? ♻️: Just as we can recycle some items infinitely, there are also other recyclables that can only be recycled a couple of times before they lose too much quality to be considered recyclable. In this blog, we will determine how many times we can recycle plastic and if there exist any breakthroughs to increase the amount we can recycle it – or even…
Economic Value Of Waste: How To Maximise The Value Of Waste! 📊
Economic Value Of Waste 📊: Did you know that the average Swede sends 3 kg of waste to landfills each year, whereas the average Australian sends 1 tonne. Since the industrial revolution, waste has been a major environmental issue worldwide. Of course, we could say the see and say the same about Australia. At the same time, humankind has been following a linear model of production and consumption. This model…
Recycling Industry Australia: What You Need To Know ♻️
Recycling Industry Australia ♻️: In this blog, we relay some useful stuff you should know about when it comes to the recycling industry in Australia. Is the industry successful today or not? Learn more by reading this blog. In the midst of a pandemic, we may find ourselves with a slew of problems stemming from it. However, in the case of Australia’s ‘messy’ problem, it has been lingering around for…
Improving Australia’s Resource Recovery Through Recycling Modernisation Fund 🌏
Recycling Modernisation Fund 🌏: We will talk about 2 programs – one in NSW and another in the whole of Australia – that provide funding for waste and recycling infrastructure to support one, important thing: resource recovery. How has Australia been fairing in resource recovery in the modern era? Does it now do a phenomenal job or does the so-called “waste problem” in Australia still exist up to this day?…
