Australian Waste Management Industry

Over 1.9 million tonnes of food waste every year come from Australian commercial and industrial sectors. Between the food retail businesses (e.g. supermarkets, grocery stores, bakeries, butches etc.) and the hospitality industries (e.g. cafes, restaurants, take-away outlets, etc.) over 1,285,505 tonnes of food is wasted per

In addition, there exist some environmental risks related to producing landfill. Even though the Australian Federal Government is not offering incentives to repurpose waste, some communities and State and Local governments are offering incentives for this practice. The main purpose of this is to avoid the disposing of waste in landfills, due to the fact that it requires so much time, energy and space, injuring our planet's health (McCabe,

Identified wastes in the current processes using the seven wastes as a guide to what should be looked for. The question was asked, “Why did this waste occur?” and, “What can be done to prevent it?”.

Food waste causes enormous economic losses; food is wasted at the production and consumer level. Did you know that in the span of five years, the economic cost of food waste rose by $2.8 billion? Yes, from $5.2 billion in 2009 to $8 billion in 2014. It is ridiculous! You are contributing to food waste, an issue that impacts us financially and environmentally. It’s almost like Australians are not struggling in managing their homes. This money can be put to use; rent, transport, clothing and recreation costs can be covered. How many of us fill our plates at dinner only to throw away a large portion of it? How many of us fill our trolleys with the week’s grocery despite knowing it will not be eaten? We reason with ourselves that a little bit of food can hardly do any harm. Think again. Every household in Australia has a similar practice pertaining to food waste so imagine the mass of that. In recent years, the demand for food has increased drastically, causing Australian farms to produce more food. Our hard-earned money is used to purchase food which unfortunately ends up as waste. In addition, the convenience associated with

Food waste is one of the biggest problems that affect the environment and wastes precious resources in Australia faces that needs to be stopped

There are many waste disposal units set up in Sydney in public areas and in individual’s households.

In Australia, we’re lucky enough to have systems in place to make recycling as easy as possible. Recycling has become a part of our everyday life, but what would our future look like without it.

Australian market has an environmental opportunity of growing a local, waste-fed biofuels market, which would help them overcome the shock of fluctuations of oil prices and fossil fuel availability.

Australians are the second highest waste producers in the world. Around 10 million tonnes of waste is produced annually, with half of that could be recycled and and another 3 million tonnes of that wasted being food. It is evident that some people in our society take our earth's resources for granted and either waste products or simply just buy too much. The world we are living in today is highly consumerist, media and technology control our everyday lives and this ultimately affects our treatment of the environment.

Queensland is home to natural resources such as coal, uranium and liquid natural gas (LNG). These minerals are shipped to countries such as China and India. For large ships to get to ports such as Gladstone Harbour, the harbour must be made deeper and wider. This process is called dredging. The sand and soil that is removed (spoils) must then be dumped out to sea. This can increase the turbidity of the water.

The article Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Ontario Waste Management Industry by Maria Kelleher, Christina Seidel, and Ralph Torrie, examined cap and trade policies for greenhouse gases and waste management systems in Ontario, Canada. The authors purpose was to summarize the connections between Ontario’s waste management industry and greenhouse gas emissions, as wells as to identify and explore opportunities and challenges associated with GHG cap and trade systems in industries (Kelleher, Seidel, & Torrie, 2015). A cap and trade policy for GHGs is in preparation for implantation in Ontario. The waste management industry influences GHGs in a variety of ways. Some of these influences include

How much food are you wasting? Did you know that Australians throw out $8 to $10 billion dollars of food every year? This is called wasting food. Us Australians waste four million tonnes of food which ends up in land fill. Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year gets lost or wasted.

According to the Conference Board of Canada, Canada is the world’s predominant per capita municipal waste producer. Canadians have produced more than 1000 kg of waste annually since 2006 (Statistics Canada, 2008: 7). The larger part of this waste is landfilled. With many landfills getting closer and closer to their maximum capacity, the environmental issues they cause and the continuous pressure they put on biodiversity, the need for quick action in this matter has never been more urgent. Waste products are treated in different ways and each of them has its own controversies. The key to solving this issue is indeed to prevent so much sewage from being produced in the first place. This essay attempts to

Waste Management, Inc., incorporated in 1968, had become a leader in the industry of waste management services ranging from industrial operations to curbside collection. This company had become synonymous with many different kinds of disposal services that allowed for the company to grow and grow with a solid base over the course of twenty-eight years. Finally in 1996, the company reported total assets of almost $20 billion with net income close to $200 million. However, even with this growth and solid base, the company was feeling competitive pressures and net income was on the decline.

Congress passed The Solid Waste Disposal Act in 1965. The Agency of Environmental Safety considered this Act as the primary effort made by federal authority for efficient waste clearance technology. This act controls the dumping material; manage storage and management of solid, both and non-precarious and precarious wastage. It highlights the processes that are environmentally liable to dispose waste at the commercial, municipal, industrial and household levels (Tchobanoglous & Vergara, 2010). This was considered as primary initiative of a chain of systems focusing on resource management and air cleaning (Gerlak, 2005). There have been several major adjustments made to the Act with the reference to Resource Recovery and Conservation Act (1976). The involvement of federal