Recycling

You can save yourself money and reduce your impact on the environment by considering resource use and waste generation during the design phase of a building project. Waste minimisation is about a change of attitude and common sense, rather than new technologies. Often waste minimisation options cost nothing to implement and give benefits strai...

More than six litres of household paint is sold each year for each and every person here. That's a lot of paint particularly as much of it is left sitting in paint containers and ends up in landfills. There are lots of ways you can reduce this burden on the environment... here's some ideas to get you started: Reduce, reuse and recycle Buy Env...

Filming WA$TED! was a journey of discovery for everyone involved. No matter how environmentally aware we considered ourselves before, it soon became clear we all had a lot more to learn. For most of us it was also a journey of no return. Once you’re aware of the impact of your actions, it becomes more diffi cult to throw your vege scraps in t...

Last July, Ralph and Ali Hogan decided to cut down the rubbish they send to landfill. Six months on, they still haven’t filled a single council rubbish bag. Ralph (pictured) says that through careful shopping and lots of recycling and composting, they have virtually eliminated their landfill rubbish. So how did they do it? “It all starts at t...