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The best way to minimise the problems of waste is to avoid generating rubbish in the first place. Think about whether you really need the product and avoid buying unnecessary products. How can you AVOID waste? Think about new ways to re-use items and materials or pass them on to someone else who might have a use for them. • Reuse packaging, such as milk bottles, soft drink bottles and take-away food containers. • Give household items, including clothes, furniture, books, toys and music to others who could use them. • Reuse plastic bags within the house. • Buy and sell items through garage sales, op shops, swap meets, the Quokka or newspaper classifieds. How can you REUSE waste? Common ways of reducing rubbish are: • Choose products with minimum of packaging. Buy goods in bulk and in a concentrated form. • Use durable and repairable products rather than short-life throwaways. • Make the most of products by buying only as much as you need. • Take your own bags when you go shopping and try not to use plastic bags. How can you REDUCE waste? Recycling involves breaking down the waste materials of a used product to make something new. • Use your local Council’s recycling collection system. • Take items such as cans and bottles to a drop off centre, often located in convenient public places like shopping centres. • Recycle vehicle oils and batteries. Some service stations, car workshops and carcare stores accept lubricating oils for recycling. Some will also accept motor vehicle batteries for recycling. Some councils provide household collections of vehicle batteries. • Mulch your garden lawn and clippings. • Buy recycled products to create a market for products made with some recycled content. How can you RECYCLE waste? BALCATTA/ TAMALA RARK RECYCLING CENTRE

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Page 1: How can you AVOID waste? How can you REDUCE waste?...compost which is used to improve the quality of soils for agriculture. Waste that cannot be reused, recycled or recovered is buried

The best way to minimise the problems of waste is to avoid generating rubbish in the first place.

Think about whether you really need the product and avoid buying unnecessary products.

How can you AVOID waste?

Think about new ways to re-use items and materials

or pass them on to someone else who might have

a use for them.

• Reuse packaging, such as milk bottles,soft drink bottles and take-away food containers.

• Give household items, including clothes,furniture, books, toys and music to others who could use them.

• Reuse plastic bags withinthe house.

• Buy and sell items throughgarage sales, op shops, swap meets, the Quokka or newspaper classifieds.

How can you REUSE waste?

Common ways of reducing

rubbish are:

• Choose products with minimum ofpackaging. Buy goods in bulk and in a concentrated form.

• Use durable and repairable productsrather than short-life throwaways.

• Make the most of products by buyingonly as much as you need.

• Take your own bags when you goshopping and try not to use plastic bags.

How can you REDUCE waste?

Recycling involves breaking down

the waste materials of a used product

to make something new.

• Use your local Council’s recyclingcollection system.

• Take items such as cans and bottles toa drop off centre, often located in convenient public places like shopping centres.

• Recycle vehicle oils and batteries.Some service stations, car workshops and carcare stores accept lubricating oils for recycling. Some will also accept motor vehicle batteries for recycling. Some councils provide household collections of vehicle batteries.

• Mulch your garden lawn and clippings.• Buy recycled products to create

a market for products made with some recycled content.

How can you RECYCLE waste?

BALCATTA/TAMALA RARK RECYCLING CENTRE

Page 2: How can you AVOID waste? How can you REDUCE waste?...compost which is used to improve the quality of soils for agriculture. Waste that cannot be reused, recycled or recovered is buried

How can you RECOVER waste?

Household rubbish in the green-lid bin goes to the Resource Recovery Facility at Neerabup for processing into compost. The food scraps and garden waste are converted into compost which is used to improve the quality of soils for agriculture.

Waste that cannot be reused, recycled or recovered is buried in the ground in landfill.

The Tamala Park landfill is the landfill for your councils. We do extract something useful from landfill – it is called methane gas. This gas is produced during the decomposition of rubbish. Methane gas is extracted from the landfill and is used to generate electricity, enough to provide power for up to 5,500 homes per year.

How can you DISPOSE of waste?

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