Each household produces 681kg of waste per year. South Australia’s landfills create 60 million cubic metres of landfill airspace. The state is one of the best at recycling and manages to divert 65% recyclable from the landfill. One of the major challenge for recycling is competing with landfills. Cheap landfill costs, disposal contract and global warming are the current crisis issues for waste in South Australia.

1. Waste Recycling liyana mohamed yusof

2. municipal solid waste ‘ food, packaging, garden organics, plastics, glass, steel cans, paper/cardboard’

3. commercial & industrial waste ‘ food/kitchen wastes, cardboard, paper, metal, wood/timber, tyres/rubber, plastics’

4. construction & demolition waste ‘ soil , rocks, rubble, asphalt, timber, metals, concrete, plastics, plasterboard, asbestos ‘

5. ‘ 681 kg of waste per household per year is collected from kerbside in metropolitan and 722 kg in non-metropolitan’

18. Amount of waste disposed of to landfill increased from 860,000 tonnes in 1995-1996 to 1,1100 tonnes in 2001-2002

21. “ Despite increase in the number of people recycling, the amount of waste going to landfill is increasing’ The 2003 State of the Environment Report for South Australia

23. Naples, Italy 2007

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