From 2019: "Australians create 67 million tonnes of waste each year."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-27/where-does-all-australias-waste-go/11755424

Australia's waste pile is only getting worse. It will not improve until:

1. Australia reduces its population intake

2. There is a move away from consumerism in Australia

3. Australia moves towards a green economy

These are just a few examples. Do you have other ideas that could change this current situation?

What does the 67 million tonnes per year figure include?
What doe it exclude?
Why do you consider it to be appalling?

It's a sad reflection of the consumerism mentality !

It’s sad for seagulls too. We need to reintroduce open tips which support local bird life and confine blowfly strike to tips, and away from population dense suburbs.
Tips are healthy.

Dan

Tips could be put beyond dam walls to further strengthen/breach proof the walls with concrete-like mix waste in stages.

Individual is on the correct thinking path.

I think more radically though, and following the example of Beirut, where tip fill is bulldozed directly into the Mediterranean Sea, a move which has exceeded our own local Government ability at sewage disposal, dumped into the Pacific ocean as a huge cost saving to rate payers. Why should the tax payer be burdened with the worry of waste disposal?

Trust our politicians to do the job efficiently for their own benefit and that of the taxpayer; and as a side benefit, unbridled development, unhindered by environmental constraints can forge forward into a utopia of trailer parks for the aged, under the spreading shade of swaying palm trees, the potential of which can be sold to prospective clients from a free flight at low tide over vast developments, including wine and bikkies.

Welcome to “Gladdies” NSW, where anything and everything is on the table; preferably under the tablecloth.

Dan.