During a study tour in Europe last year I asked an engineer working in the Swiss waste industry where their landfills were located. He replied there weren't any and that many countries in Europe had achieved similar.
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| The high property prices in our cities means landfills are increasingly being sited hundreds of kilometres away. |
I was amazed to learn this, and it has had a major impact on my thinking.
The very concept of landfills is weird when you think about it.
As a society we spend so much effort in growing and mining the food and materials that enable us to live our lives. Then when we have no further use of these we collect and send them to a big hole in the ground to be buried — out of sight and out of mind.
Read the ABC News story by Paul Klymenko - “Landfill is not a long-term solution for waste management in Australia.”
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