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Sustainable Waste Solutions

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 414 385 644

Address: 190 New Canterbury Rd, Petersham 2049 Sydney, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 Good news Randwick residents

25.01.2022 A great new reason to go to the Post Office!

24.01.2022 This is a good move and well overdue. This was never a good idea and it allowed many people to kid themselves that they were doing something responsible by buying this brand when they shouldn't have even been buying this entire category of product. It's good to hear that the company has been able to successfully pivot to other products in order to achieve some beneficial outcomes.

23.01.2022 Here's a good news story for you. Credit where credit is due, Coles seems to be doing some good work here and making progress, just as we need *all* of the major, and minor, grocery players to make. We need them to be continually striving to reduce their negative environmental and social impacts because as suppliers of our groceries, their impacts are our impacts.

23.01.2022 "Every 10,000 tonnes of waste that is recovered, reused, repurposed or recycled creates 9.2 jobs, compared with just 2.4 jobs if that material is sent to landfill or exported."

21.01.2022 It's fabulous to see that Sustainable Salons and another program are gaining more and more traction within the Hair Dressing industry. All industries can do this once someone decides to make a sustainable business out of helping them!

21.01.2022 Very cool - go the composting worms!

20.01.2022 "In Australia, we consume 3.5 million tonnes of plastic every year, that’s five kilograms each year, Australians are consuming. That's more than three times the global average. Worse still, approximately 130,000 tonnes leak into our marine environments - that’s heavier than two Titanics." COVID has set us back on eliminating plastic pollution. We're worse now than we were before the pandemic struck. We've got to get this back under way as a priority, regardless of what else is going on. We have to be able to give attention to more than one global problem at a time. Maybe this could be *your* main issue to be a champion for?

19.01.2022 This is great news from Proctor and Gamble but we need it to happen sooner than 2030. Just between you and me and the gate post, I'm guessing that once they're under way with this initiative they'll end up hitting their 100% recyclable packaging target a lot sooner than 2030.

19.01.2022 This is a cool thing that I don't remember having heard of before - and they've just planted their 100-millionth tree! Amazing! I'm going to give it a try - maybe you could too?

17.01.2022 If you find that you can't avoid a single use coffee cup some time please at least ask to 'Go topless'.

17.01.2022 A useful snapshot summary from Mike Richie of MRA Consulting.

15.01.2022 Sure to be a great composting workshop with Toni Salter - she's great!

14.01.2022 We can't see this current covid period as the new normal. The new normal is still to be designed, implemented and refined. Please engage as we need your voice.

14.01.2022 CO2 levels in the atmosphere Weekly averages 5 September 2020: 411.59 ppm This time last year: 408.82 ppm... 10 years ago: 387.59 ppm Pre-industrial base: 280 Safe level: 350 Atmospheric CO2 reading from Mauna Loa, Hawaii (part per million). Source: NOAA-ESRL Scientists have warned for more than a decade that concentrations of more than 450ppm risk triggering extreme weather events and temperature rises as high as 2C, beyond which the effects of global heating are likely to become catastrophic and irreversible. Source: The Guardian

13.01.2022 We need to do a much better job with e-waste. We need to properly recycle ore of it but we should at the same time be trying even harder to create less of it. The financial costs of these gadgets and gizmos that we seem to be addicted to does NOT include the true environment costs. If you do have to buy electrical and electronic gear please try to buy wisely and buy quality that will last longer. If you don't know where your local e-waste collection sites are please drop me a line and I'll do what I can to help you. Whatever you do, please don't just dump your e-waste into landfill.

13.01.2022 Here's an interesting presentation to watch & listen to on techniques and mindsets to encourage more effective behaviour change shifts and increased engagement with the circular economy. You will need to register to access the presentation and then you can watch the recording and access the slides etc. Some key points to give an indication of the content of the presentation:... "Here are four tips Hallinger recommends for designing large-scale interventions: 1. Make it relatable: People often think they need to force people to do something they don’t want to do, Hallinger shared. But brute force is rarely the path of least resistance. The easier route is to find a way to relate to them. What’s an intersection of a goal they already want that aligns with your goal? For example, if your generic environmental appeal to an individual doesn’t resonate, perhaps an individual will relate more with a personal desire to visit a clean beach in the summer. 2. Make it desirable: Culture and social norms are strong drivers of consumer behavior. The most desirable thing for humans is to fit in, Hallinger explained. If you design interventions that create community norms of waste reduction behavior, reusing and repairing, then everyone wants to be doing the same thing. You don’t want to stand out. You do it because of your desire to be part of the community. 3. Make it contextual: Behavior change interventions must be relevant and salient. Hallinger explained that if you’re engaging employees in a work context about actions they can take at home, it will likely go in one ear and out the other. Focus on actions that people can implement immediately. 4. Make it easy: The right choice from a sustainability perspective should also be the easy choice. If you create the infrastructure and design built environments that make the behavior you want the default, then you have behavior without even needing to persuade the person. To eliminate the guesswork that consumers face at the bin, Hallinger suggested that single-stream recycling with back-of-house sorting would design out confusion and contamination, and lead to higher recycling rates in certain contexts."

10.01.2022 People often seem to think that there's magic behind LCAs, that somehow there can be certainty from the assessment process and that the certainty is directly relevant to the issue in front of you. Sometimes when it comes down to one product or another there will be a values based decision at the end of the process to determine which of the best or worst environmental cost differences are of more concern to you. It's still a valuable process though!

02.01.2022 This is great news indeed. The retailers complaining about not having enough time to prepare need to suck it up and just get on with it. The speed of change demonstrated with COVID shows that change can and must happen much faster than the laggards trying to avoid getting with the program have expressed as being possible in the past. Given that it's mid-September now, "early 2021" isn't that far away and I say it can't come quick enough when it comes to important changes like getting rid of single-use plastic cutlery and straws.

01.01.2022 Wow! Promising pollution reduction tech!