In Sweden, 99
percent of household waste is recycled or incinerated to make energy used to heat homes, and even the ashes are mined for reusable metals.
The first plant will take hundreds of thousands of
tonnes of household waste per - year, destined for landfill or incineration, including diapers, plastic food... Read more →
While facilities for doorstep
recycling of household waste are now widely available, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has noted there are fewer opportunities for recycling in public places.
Mihai, Florin - Constantin (2013): Quantitative assessment
of household waste disposed in floodplains of rivers from extra-Carpathian region of Neamț county, Romania.
Seidel noted that people got by just fine with cloth before disposable diapers were invented, and that disposables were a growing
part of household waste.
They also believe that the broken pots had come from
heaps of household waste, which were spread over the fields as fertiliser and would have contained human or animal faeces.
A bill being prepared in the Japanese Parliament aims to cut the 160 000 tonnes
of household waste generated every day in Japan by recycling.
He said: «Food waste makes up a significant
proportion of the household waste we throw out each week, with over 70 % of the food waste dumped in landfills coming from households.
Thanks to policies implemented in 1988, the government has been able to decouple GDP growth and
production of household waste over a period of about one generation.
Plastic microbeads are too small to be properly filtered
out of household waste water by most municipal treatment facilities.
That will take the emphasis off waste reduction and the need to improve recycling programs, says Shawn Williamson, whose family diverts 99.3 per
cent of its household waste.
The sites operate for members of the public to dispose
of their household waste so that as much as possible can be recycled, therefore rubbish is separated into allocated containers for recycling products such as garden waste, hardcore and rubble, mixed glass, textiles and clothes, electricals and more.
Arrow Bio, a part of the Arrow Ecology company, takes approximately 3,000
tons of household waste or about 1000 truckloads per day and manages to reuse or recycle 80 percent of this waste.
In a house with a child in diapers, disposables make up 50 %
of household waste.
On average 50 percent
of household waste is organic matter that could be composted.
Nearly a quarter (23 %)
of that household waste is «prepared foods and leftovers.»