Rubbish removal in Sydney has changed significantly in the past few years.
Mainly because the laws around rubbish have also changed. We are in a more environmentally conscious world.
Australia as a country is one of the leaders in working towards reducing carbon footprints and being environmentally respectful.
And NSW and Sydney specifically are in alignment with that.
I have been an independent Rubbish Removal contractor for over 20 years. So I have seen a lot of change over that time.
What I want to share with you in this article, are some key elements about ‘the back end’ – where your rubbish goes, how it is being treated. All in keeping with both removing waste and also disposing of it responsibly.
Waste facilities Sydney
There are over 12 waste recycling, processing and disposing facilities serving Sydney and beyond.
Each site has specific types of waste they will and will not receive.
There is also a Native seedling nursery at Lucas Heights where they grow native plants to rehabilitate closed landfills.
There are four landfill sites across Sydney currently open that are designed in such a way as too minimize the amount of space used, yet maximize the amount of time the landfill will remain open for operation.
There are waste receivals areas at the sites that are designed to reduce the amount of vehicle movement and providing waste streaming services.
WSN pioneered the Green Energy generation from waste in NSW in 1994, this process is spread across the sites, and generates energy to power up to 30,000 homes!
How Good Are Australians At Recycling?
In NSW, households are recycling up to 46% of their waste. Australians are the best newspaper recyclists in the world – recycling 74% of their newspapers in 2005.
In 2005 Australians also recycled 2.3 billion aluminum cans, which is 600 million more than 10 years ago!
Australians are the highest producers of waste, per person, in the world.
Unfortunately it is estimated that over 7 billion cigarette butts end up in Australian waterways, streets and park lands each year. 80 Million plastic bags also end up as litter – which threatens marine life.
Recycling one tonne of plastic will save enough energy to run a refrigerator for a month! Recyclable material makes up almost 80% of total household waste.
Rubbish Removal Sydney – What You Can Do To Help
Above, I was sharing some facts and figures that are related more to household rubbish. Someone like myself are generally called to clear bigger items of rubbish. Such things are household furniture or appliances you no longer want.
Rubbish from a renovation.
Rubbish from a demolition.
Rubbish from Commercial Premises – such as old files, computers, office equipment.
There is in many ways no end to the rubbish that can be removed rubbish removal.
Some of the important things for you the client to know, is to clearly detail to someone like myself what the rubbish removed is.
How much of it there is.
And what the access to your property or office is like.
Now these are not difficult things to supply.
What it will do, will enable me to work out how best to approach your job, and also what tip I will need to visit to dispose of the rubbish.
All things that factor in your quote for the job.
Again all very easy to achieve.
I think you will find with both someone like myself, or any of my colleagues – and I do belong myself to a group of independent contractors – as honestly (we’re biased) we believe we do a better job, as we are more customer focused, than the bigger Sydney rubbish removal organizations.
And I certainly maintain that no job is too hard – that it is always about a solution. And getting the job done quickly, expertly and leaving you with a clean space where there was once rubbish.
So it’s both about quality service and attractive pricing – which as an independent I have the flexibility to do.