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Recycling may be history
Apr 19^th, 2018 at 1:44pm

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...

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?

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Re: Recycling may be history
Reply #1 - Apr 19^th, 2018 at 2:24pm

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."

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issuevoter Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9200 The Great State of Mind Gender:	Re: Recycling may be history Reply #2 - Apr 19^th, 2018 at 2:26pm I've got more pressing affairs than checking my neighbours garbage.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 155998 Gender:	Re: Recycling may be history Reply #3 - Apr 19^th, 2018 at 2:31pm 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.
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Unforgiven Gold Member Offline I have sinned Posts: 8879 Gender:	Re: Recycling may be history Reply #4 - Apr 19^th, 2018 at 4:04pm issuevoter wrote on Apr 19^th, 2018 at 2:26pm: I've got more pressing affairs than checking my neighbours garbage. Ironing business?
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Unforgiven Gold Member Offline I have sinned Posts: 8879 Gender:	Re: Recycling may be history Reply #5 - Apr 19^th, 2018 at 4:05pm greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 19^th, 2018 at 2:31pm: 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. I would have to be careful not to bin Valkie or be accused of dumping toxic waste.
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Re: Recycling may be history
Reply #6 - Apr 19^th, 2018 at 5:40pm

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

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

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.

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

Use this bin:

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Re: Recycling may be history
Reply #7 - Apr 21^st, 2018 at 2:07pm

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.

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Benson New Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8 England Gender:	Re: Recycling may be history Reply #8 - Apr 28^th, 2018 at 7:26am 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.
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Ajax Gold Member Offline CO2 has never controlled temperature on Earth Posts: 11070 Australia Gender:	Re: Recycling may be history Reply #9 - Apr 28^th, 2018 at 10:26am 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
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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21590 Gender:	Re: Recycling may be history Reply #10 - Apr 28^th, 2018 at 1:06pm Aluminium burns.
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Ajax Gold Member Offline CO2 has never controlled temperature on Earth Posts: 11070 Australia Gender:	Re: Recycling may be history Reply #11 - Apr 28^th, 2018 at 1:13pm 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.
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Re: Recycling may be history
Reply #12 - May 2^nd, 2018 at 12:47am

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.

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Re: Recycling may be history
Reply #13 - May 2^nd, 2018 at 5:50am

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.

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miketrees Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6492 Gender:	Re: Recycling may be history Reply #14 - May 2^nd, 2018 at 8:18am 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.
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