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Business and Office Recycling
Every business produces waste of some kind or other, but what that waste is and how much is produced will vary greatly across sectors. With changes in environmental legislation affecting how we handle and dispose of waste, attitudes will have to change or businesses will risk high costs and prosecution.
Behind all this legislation is a drive towards a more sustainable planet through reductions in natural resource use. Minimising the waste we produce is one way of doing this as waste is a symptom of inefficient consumption.
But having produced the waste, it all has to be disposed of in a way that inevitably causes some environmental impact and the challenge is to reduce the effect of waste both today and on future generations.
Bulk waste disposal
Traditionally, Australia has relied on landfill for the bulk of its waste disposal. Over 80% of commercial waste is still landfilled whilst for household waste, that figure is around 75%. There is plentiful availability and therefore cost has been the key factor in inhibiting the development of alternatives, but that now has to change as Environmental pressure demands reductions in landfill through targets for reduction, recycling and, potentially, re-use.