I lived in Lismore when composting was introduced something like 20 or more years ago. I don’t know if they’ve moved to the burgundy bins since then, the instructions back then were to wrap compost in newspaper and bin it that way. Sometime in the last few years I saw a truck driving though Sydney delivering Lismore compost, it was awesome.
Our apartment building has a couple big burgundy bins and every flat was issued a small kitchen bin for moving waste to the communal bins. Occasionally flats are issued new biodegradable bags but I suspect that’s more than most places, if they get any at all from strata or council. We still buy the bulk of the bags we need.
I feel like the bins don’t get used as much as they could. I think we’re taking scraps down every day or so. If each apartment was contributing as much it would be overflowing. Perhaps a lot of folks are eating out, getting takeout, buying premade dinners etc. We still see food scraps and recycling in the rubbish bins sometimes.
The pace of cultural change is so slow. We should be doing so much more. The amount of furniture and kitchen packaging that gets recycled or trashed every week in our block is insane. Moving to a 100% biodegradable waste system would be amazing among other measures.
Moving to a 100% biodegradable waste system would be amazing…
I can see it happening for residential, especially if grocery stores were forced to take more action. But for organisations, especially things like hospitals, a technological step is needed. What replaces all the single use plastic in those?
I lived in Lismore when composting was introduced something like 20 or more years ago. I don’t know if they’ve moved to the burgundy bins since then, the instructions back then were to wrap compost in newspaper and bin it that way. Sometime in the last few years I saw a truck driving though Sydney delivering Lismore compost, it was awesome.
Our apartment building has a couple big burgundy bins and every flat was issued a small kitchen bin for moving waste to the communal bins. Occasionally flats are issued new biodegradable bags but I suspect that’s more than most places, if they get any at all from strata or council. We still buy the bulk of the bags we need.
I feel like the bins don’t get used as much as they could. I think we’re taking scraps down every day or so. If each apartment was contributing as much it would be overflowing. Perhaps a lot of folks are eating out, getting takeout, buying premade dinners etc. We still see food scraps and recycling in the rubbish bins sometimes.
The pace of cultural change is so slow. We should be doing so much more. The amount of furniture and kitchen packaging that gets recycled or trashed every week in our block is insane. Moving to a 100% biodegradable waste system would be amazing among other measures.
I can see it happening for residential, especially if grocery stores were forced to take more action. But for organisations, especially things like hospitals, a technological step is needed. What replaces all the single use plastic in those?
I don’t doubt that we can solve technological issues like that. But we either force the issue or it wont happen.