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PET global bottle production 2021. Cool Australia - Learn For Life. Bottled Water. Where do we start? Okay, put your hand up if you are happy to pay more than 1,000 times over the cost for anything. No hands showing? Now put your hand up if you would buy a bottle of something down at the shops for $3.50 that you can get for free with no effort. No hands showing? Well our hands should be up – this is what millions of us do every day. This is what we do with water in Australia. Bottled water has to be pumped out of the ground, packaged, transported and chilled before it gets to us. The manufacture and transport of the plastic bottles for all this water requires over 460,000 barrels of oil.4 Less than 40% of these bottles are recycled; the balance ends up in landfill or in our waterways.7 Recycling 41 plastic bottles saves enough energy to run a fridge for 1 hour or a computer for 17 hours.5 Recycling makes a big difference; the more we recycle the less raw materials we use.

Product stewardship schemes. The NSW Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001 provides for the introduction of extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes in NSW.

Product stewardship schemes

EPR involves producers taking more responsibility for managing the environmental impact of their products throughout their life cycle. Supporting national initiatives The NSW Government supports initiatives under the National Waste Policy. Most notably this has included establishment of an Australian framework for product stewardship, which has been a long-standing focus in NSW. The Commonwealth Product Stewardship Act 2011, which provided the first national approach to voluntary and regulated product stewardship schemes, involves industry taking greater responsibility for the environmental impacts of their products, particularly where they become waste.

Facts and figures - Clarence Valley Council. Facts and figures on recycling, waste, transport and energy usage in Australia.

Facts and figures - Clarence Valley Council

Paper There are 40,000 sheets A4 sheets of paper in 1 tonne of paper Approximately 600,000 tonnes of paper and cardboard are sent to landfill in NSW each year - this equates to 1,800,000 cubic metres of landfill space Recycling 1 tonne of paper and cardboard saves approximately 13 trees and 1,438 litres of oil Every 100 reams of recycled office paper that is printed double sided saves 2 trees, more than a tonne of greenhouse gas and almost a cubic metre of landfill space Producing paper from recovered fibres consumes 60% less energy and 55% less water than manufacturing paper from virgin pulp Metals Glass. Home - Return and Earn NSW. 130800 lpk things know. Local litter check litter prevention kit 160379. A million bottles a minute: world's plastic binge 'as dangerous as climate change'.

A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute and the number will jump another 20% by 2021, creating an environmental crisis some campaigners predict will be as serious as climate change.

A million bottles a minute: world's plastic binge 'as dangerous as climate change'

New figures obtained by the Guardian reveal the surge in usage of plastic bottles, more than half a trillion of which will be sold annually by the end of the decade. The demand, equivalent to about 20,000 bottles being bought every second, is driven by an apparently insatiable desire for bottled water and the spread of a western, urbanised “on the go” culture to China and the Asia Pacific region. More than 480bn plastic drinking bottles were sold in 2016 across the world, up from about 300bn a decade ago. If placed end to end, they would extend more than halfway to the sun. By 2021 this will increase to 583.3bn, according to the most up-to-date estimates from Euromonitor International’s global packaging trends report.

China is responsible for most of the increase in demand. Curtin University Library. Environment Communications marine plastic sub77. Effect of temperature on the release of intentionally and non-intentionally added substances from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles into water: Chemical analysis and potential toxicity. JavaScript is disabled on your browser.

Effect of temperature on the release of intentionally and non-intentionally added substances from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles into water: Chemical analysis and potential toxicity

Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. Environment Communications marine plastic sub77. Effect of waste plastic bottles on the stiffness and fatigue properties of modified asphalt mixes. JavaScript is disabled on your browser.

Effect of waste plastic bottles on the stiffness and fatigue properties of modified asphalt mixes

Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. Highlights PET reduced the mix stiffness at both temperatures of 5 and 25 °C. PET improved the fatigue behavior at both testing temperatures. At more than 210 microstrain, adding temperature resulted in higher fatigue life. SBS modified mixes showed better fatigue behavior than PET modified ones.

Overall PET had comparable effects to SBS on the stiffness and fatigue behavior. Abstract Nowadays, the use of recycled waste materials as modifier additives in asphalt mixes could have several economic and environmental benefits. The Case against Plastic Bottles at Gulf Park. Container deposits. State of Waste 2016 – current and future Australian trends. By Mike Ritchie – Director, MRA Consulting Group On 16 February 2016, the Australian population reached 24 million people.

State of Waste 2016 – current and future Australian trends

Waste generation rates are a function of population growth, the level of urbanisation and per capita income[i] and Australians now produce about 50 million tonnes of waste each year, averaging over 2 tonnes per person. There are more of us and we generate more waste per person, each year. In the period 1996-2015 our population rose by 28% but waste generation increased by 170%.

Waste is growing at a compound growth rate of 7.8% /Year[ii]. On the positive side, recycling is growing at a faster rate and since 2005 we have actually seen (for the first time) a decline in tonnages of waste sent to landfill (in the most progressive States). We now recycle approximately 58% of all the waste we generate and landfill the rest. Fig 1. Targets Generally, metals, paper and cardboard and plastic (in sufficient quantities), are commercially viable recyclables. Fig 2. PET global bottle production 2021. Plastic bottles: one million made every minute, crisis as bad as climate change. SHOULD you ever travel to one of the many uninhibited islands that dot the most remote reaches of Earth’s oceans, chances are you’ll find plastic bottles littering the shore.

Plastic bottles: one million made every minute, crisis as bad as climate change

Even if there’s nothing else to be found there, civilisation’s obsession with plastic waste is having a profound impact on every corner of the globe. And it’s getting worse. One million plastic bottles are bought every minute around the globe, fuelled by our insatiable thirst for bottled water. Figures obtained by The Guardian show the annual sale of plastic bottles will soar to a staggering one trillion by the end of this decade — a 20 per cent increase. Most of those bottles end up in landfill, where they take a significant time to break down, or in the ocean where they kill marine life. Clean Up Australia. Older News.

Clean Up Australia

Peer Journal plastics

Polyethylene Terephthalate May Yield Endocrine Disruptors. Effects of storage time and temperature on the antimony and some trace element release from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into the bottled drinking water. Curtin University Library. Curtin University Library. Toxicity of leachate from weathering plastics: An exploratory screening study with Nitocra spinipes. JavaScript is disabled on your browser.

Toxicity of leachate from weathering plastics: An exploratory screening study with Nitocra spinipes

Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. Highlights Plastics were repeatedly leached and irradiated with artificial sunlight. The real cost of bottled water - Sustainability - University of Queensland. Plastics, the environment and human health: current consensus and future trends. Phthalates in Beverages and Plastic Bottles: Sample Preparation and Determination. Toxicity of leachate from weathering plastics: An exploratory screening study with Nitocra spinipes. The Effects of Landfills on the Environment.

In the decades before government regulations were put in place for landfills, anything and everything could be buried beneath the ground at an old dump site, some of which may still be releasing toxic chemicals or other hazardous materials into the Earth.

The Effects of Landfills on the Environment

As buried organic materials decompose, they release methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read) Landfills and dumps buried over often become suburban home sites in later years, unbeknownst to people who may live on them. Landfills have a distinctive effect on air pollution, nature, land and humans. Soil in the area may be saturated with chemicals or hazardous substances Air Pollution About two-thirds of landfill waste contains biodegradable organic matter from households, business and industry. Biodiversity Impacts According to the Romanian Ministry of Environment and Forests, the development of a landfill site means the loss of approximately 30 to 300 species per hectare. Art made from plastic bottles. Earthworms’ role in the ecosystem.

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