WEEK 2 -CITY OF SYDNEY- KATH MCLAUCHLAN

City Of Sydney is the local government authority responsible for looking after Sydney's CBD as well as 30 surrounding suburbs. These include Sydney Harbour at Rushcutters Bay to Glebe and Annandale in the west, Sydney Park and Rosebery in the south, and Centennial Park and Paddington in the east.
The lecture today looked at a number of recycling issues as well as the waste cycle and the different types of waste collection days. These are some of the key points I picked up from today:
City Of Sydney- 300 staff, 24/7 cleaning with a target of 57% division of landfill.
Average in your bin includes: 30% other, 7% paper & cardboard, 39% food, 13% recyclable containers and 11% organic(garden related waste).

Recycled object:
Steel cans > Car parts
Aluminium cans> new cans
Glass bottles/jars> more bottles
Old soft drink bottle> new fleecy jacket or soft drink

Quaterly E-Waste recycling- includes tv's monitors, appliances, printers, laptops etc.
More sustainable options- Worm farms and compost bin
Waste Cycle- 1. extracted from environment 2. factory 3.packaging/transport 4. consumer 5.goods consumerd 6. waste discarded/ transported.

References:
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/zerowaste/  

the real cost of fishfingers- Supervalue

http://www.wasteservice.nsw.gov.au/dir138/wsn.nsf/Content/Facilities

http://www.visy.com.au/recycling/index.php?id=188


Remember AVOID.REUSE.RECYCLE