Keep the soil safe like South Australia

Which is the most top rubbish? Plastic bottles, poly bags, cans and so on. But according to the head of Clean UP Australia Day South Australia is the only state where drink containers are not among the top five types of rubbish collected.

Ian Kiernan has repeated invitation calls to other states to introduce levies to cut the number of cans and bottles that are dumped.


"To make cans out of recycled material, you can make seven cans out of the same energy it would take to make one new can," he said.

"So with global warming and emissions, that sort of thing, that's a very good reason to look to increasing your rates of recovery."






Cans harm the soil. So keeping the soil safe it has been an important step

Residents participating in the city of Dalton curbside recycling program.

People participating in the city of Dalton curbside recycling program gathered more than one million pounds of recyclables products during the first six months of 2010.

According to the city of Dalton Curbside Recycling Report, produced by the Dalton-Whitfield Regional Solid Waste Authority’s Materials Recovery Facility or Recycling Center,Some 550.1 tons or 1.1 million pounds of recyclables were collected during the months of January to June.

Recycling takes a product at the end of its utility and makes the best use of it by utilizing all or part of it to make another product instead of more garbage. Plastic bottles, such as water and soda bottles, yield enough fiber to make one extra large T-shirt, one square foot of carpet, or enough fiber to fill one ski jacket. That’s the equivalent of a stack of newspapers 5.95 miles long.

The destination for this year is 1,200 tons or 2,4 million pounds. Products collected for recycling include papea square foot carpet, aluminum cans, bi-metal, Dalton curbside recycling program, glass bottles, jars, large T-shirt, plastic and glass bottles, plastic bottles, recyclables, ski jacket, tin cansr, magazines, newspaper, cardboard, plastic bottles and jugs with the No. 1 or No. 2 recycling symbol, aluminum cans, bi-metal or tin cans, and glass bottles and jars that are clear, brown, green or blue.

At present recycling unused products has been an important issue to save the environment. It helps to protect the environment, a profitable business as well.

The Tasmanian Greens wants government help to recycle cans and plastic bottles and containers

The Tasmanian Greens have requested the State Government to pursue a container recycling scheme. State’s Environment ministers have been to a meeting in Darwin to discuss a national 10 cent refund where cans and plastic bottles are recycled. Most importantly, A Federal Government-commissioned report found it would cost about $680 million per year to run.

Greens spokesman, Tim Morris, says “Tasmania should join the Northern Territory and South Australian Governments which are pushing ahead with container deposit schemes”.

"We're saying this should also be Tasmania's position we need to come into line with South Australia," he said.

"They have a fantastic container deposit system and recovery system that's meant that their recovery of cans and bottles is up in the 70 percents whereas ours is much lower."

So Greens want container recycling center. No doubt, that it is important for the environment.