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Buzz Lightbulb


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dogbox wrote:

when i think about it , i payed council rates that covered my garbage disposal i also payed water rates to dispose of my sewage so in effect we are already paying to dispose of some of our rubbish (levy /tax same as) the sewerage goes thru a treatment plant and comes out the other end as clean water with a solid by product that can be used for many things from fertilizer to making diesel fuel (not commercially viable when i seen it being done ) a lot of methane gas is another by product
how do we treat our other rubbish to make it neutral ? if it requires some sort of processing plant where will it go ? even the save the planet people don't want it in their back yard .
i stated previously that NSW was at one point sending their rubbish by B-DOUBLE to QLD because it was cheaper to dump it there than process it in NSW . some one is/was making a couple of dollars. what about asbestos, any demolition /renovations containing asbestos they charge extra but in most cases it gets treated as standard rubbish , or in some cases large amounts dumped on rural blocks to become someone else's problem later

if we are going to remove things from our lives that we now find are detrimental ,what are we going to replace them with ?

 There are lots of initiatives or potential initiatives that can reduce and reuse that waste. It just needs people and the government to support those initiatives:

Australian Paper's energy-from-waste project in Latrobe Valley receives federal funding boost

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-29/energy-from-waste-latrobe-valley-construction-starts-soon/10102719

 

Human waste turned into renewable energy at Australia's first biosolids gasification plant

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-27/qld-logan-council-biosolids-gasification-plant-human-waste/101016840

 

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-02/green-coal-noxious-weed-to-become-carbon-neutral-energy-source/100958326

 

Global company to transform Australian recycling with $260-million plant in NSW Central West

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-04/recycling-plant-parkes-nsw-central-west-/100879006

 

Here's what you can do with old clothes you can't donate

 

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/recycling-clothes-you-cant-donate/11005522

Australia's first national recycling scheme for household batteries launches

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-15/national-recycling-battery-product-stewardship-economics/100829954

Victoria's first seaweed farm aims to reduce livestock emissions

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-02-12/seaweed-to-reduce-cow-methane-emissions-port-phillip/100819694

Blue-sky thinking: Net zero aviation is more than a flight of fantasy

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-20/blue-sky-net-zero-aviation-more-than-flight-fantasy/100704820

Landfill waste turned into commercial-grade petrol, diesel in CQUniversity project

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-09/landfill-waste-commercial-grade-diesel-petrol-fuel-project-cqu/100647952

Could unwanted cotton clothing be diverted from landfill and recycled on farms?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-19/circular-cotton-initiative-recycling-into-soil/100632834

The Barcaldine brothers' journey to a renewable energy precinct planned for outback Queensland

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-10/qld-outback-barcaldine-renewable-energy/100436900

Hello poo-powered dairies, goodbye recycling bins: The region emerging as a green hub

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-01/nsw-south-coast-emerging-as-alternative-energy-hub/100329204

Germany is shutting down its coal industry for good, so far without sacking a single worker

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-18/australia-climate-how-germany-is-closing-down-its-coal-industry/11902884

Coal-rich Hunter Valley ponders jobs future as Asian giants commit to net-zero carbon emissions

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-02/coal-transition-climate-change-hunter-region/13109642

Logan City turning human waste into energy in move to go carbon neutral within two years

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-12/logan-city-aims-to-use-poo-power-human-waste-to-energy/12748782

Coronavirus pandemic sees charities and retailers work together to divert excess stock from landfill

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-29/charities-save-retail-goods-from-landfill/12397678

You may need to search these yourself breviary since of the hypertext links might not work.

Enjoy.

 



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i 'm thinking you have a lot more time on your hands than i have . the human waste thru sewage treatment seems to be well covered .

it would appear that it is the other waste that is the problem

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i 'm thinking you have a lot more time on your hands than i have . the human waste thru sewage treatment seems to be well covered .

it would appear that it is the other waste that is the problem

 Those are just stories that I saved because I thought that they were interesting and now I'm able to share them. 



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Buzz Lightbulb wrote:
dogbox wrote:

i 'm thinking you have a lot more time on your hands than i have . the human waste thru sewage treatment seems to be well covered .

it would appear that it is the other waste that is the problem

 Those are just stories that I saved because I thought that they were interesting and now I'm able to share them. 

 Here's another one that I just read that recycles chemical waste into drugs and fertilizers:

 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317146-chemical-waste-can-be-recycled-into-a-range-of-drugs-and-fertilisers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=currents



-- Edited by Buzz Lightbulb on Sunday 8th of May 2022 04:22:37 PM

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