As Ipswich Council is forced to send recycling to landfill, the problem of disposable consumerism is about to get much worse.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-19/queensland-council-recycling-dump-to-start-nationwide-reaction/9673370

Everything we see in any main street commercial enterprise, is headed for the dump. At best in 10 year, but more likely 0 to 3: electronics, clothing, furniture, supermarket packaging, construction debris, tires, toys. You name it.

One of the worst is the plastic drinking straw. One use, and into the garbage. When I was a kid, drinking straws were made out of waxed paper spirals. They were plenty strong enough for a milkshake. Why do they have to be made out of plastic now?

My rubbish will be on display soon.

"Suburbs around Perth are set to trial transparent bins in a push to spark conversations between neighbours about what we’re binning.

"The clear bins will replace traditional green ones at select homes in Joondalup, Perth, Stirling, Vincent, Wanneroo and Victoria Park over the next two months."

I've got more pressing affairs than checking my neighbours garbage.

issuevoter wrote on Apr 19^th, 2018 at 2:26pm:

I've got more pressing affairs than checking my neighbours garbage.

I might put off recycling my Playboy collection.

issuevoter wrote on Apr 19^th, 2018 at 2:26pm:

I've got more pressing affairs than checking my neighbours garbage.

Ironing business?

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 19^th, 2018 at 2:31pm:

issuevoter wrote on Apr 19th, 2018 at 2:26pm: I've got more pressing affairs than checking my neighbours garbage. I might put off recycling my Playboy collection.

I would have to be careful not to bin Valkie or be accused of dumping toxic waste.

Unforgiven wrote on Apr 19^th, 2018 at 4:05pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 19th, 2018 at 2:31pm: issuevoter wrote on Apr 19th, 2018 at 2:26pm: I've got more pressing affairs than checking my neighbours garbage. I might put off recycling my Playboy collection. I would have to be careful not to bin Valkie or be accused of dumping toxic waste.

Use this bin:

https://static.gbtimes.com/uploads/old/2014/03/26/3611068615_e6bfddc639_b.jpg

The Ipswich council's immediate turnaround smacks of political pressure, and rightly so, but our mounting garbage problem is not going away. It is largely due to rampant consumerism, which would be nice, if it all didn't end up in landfill within 10 years.

We now throw away glass pepper and salt shakers after they run out. And chain pharmacies now give standard prepackaged drugs of half again as much as necessary to save on dispensing time. Boxes, blister packs, and drugs, straight into landfill from manufacture.

The human race survived thousands of years without plastic packaging, not sure why we can't manage again. I remember drinks were in either glass bottles or aluminium cans.

We could use plastics to fire the boilers of power stations instead of coal.......???

Clean energy....!!!!!

Money to be made here.

Wont be long before someone figures it out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidized_bed_combustion

Aluminium burns.

lee wrote on Apr 28^th, 2018 at 1:06pm:

Aluminium burns.

HHmmmm dont know about a technology that uses aluminium as a fuel.

But fluidized bed boilers can eat up paper, cardboard and plastic................ ;)

For fuel.

If Australia can't get its recycling in order that we can't recycle every bit of rubbish we throw away, then we really lack the capacity to look after our country. I don't care the costs. We should be investing in recycling what we have, instead of just running out of things we need in the future. This is getting ridiculous.

In some of the workers camps now they supply plastic reusable containers for everyone's lunches, they used to have Chinese takeaway containers and some guys would use 4-6 a day,  400 man in the camp that's a lot of throw away plastic that's not being lost.
Maybe Tax breaks for companies that use reusable containers that customers can return for reuse. I doubt if many companies would do it out of concern.

China stopping taking our rubbish is a good thing.

We have been slack in controlling the quality of our packaging because we had someone else to clean up the mess.

Now we need to put some effort into packaging so that recycling is easy.

Manufacture of plastic is cheaper than paper. But yes, plastic straws are now the cause of the ecological disaster in the world's oceans. I hope that by joint efforts of environmental organizations and caring people we will be able to ban plastic straws soon.