Reducing waste
Building materials
Building projects use a lot of resources and can generate much waste. By planning to reduce materials and considering recycled, you can reduce waste.
Recycling
Recycling means your waste products go on to become useful for someone else. A wide range of waste products can now be recycled into new products.
Reducing waste
Australians throw away around 20 million tonnes of waste per year. We can waste less by remembering to rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle.
Did you know?
- Many plastics can be recycled again and again without losing their qualities. Using recycled materials to make new products decreases Australia's demand on natural resources, and reduces both energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
- When food and garden wastes decompose in landfill, methane is created. Methane is a more damaging greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Page last modified: 19 Aug 2009