The Thneedville Song. How to stop your recyclables ending up in landfill. If you think you are doing your bit for the environment by recycling at home, you could be mistaken.
Household-recycled products that have been contaminated contribute to much of the waste in landfill. And you could be part of the problem. Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Australian communities are fighting food waste with circular economies. Around 4 million tonnes of food reaches landfill in Australia each year.
This forms part of Australia’s organic waste, the country’s largest unrecovered stream of waste that goes into landfill. There’s a missed opportunity here to recover this waste and do something useful with it. In particular, we can use it for energy such as biofuel. Fashion Revolution.