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Originally Posted by Ocker
There are some mining towns in West Oz where thwere is NO waste. Everything including left over food is recycled. The food is put in worm farms and the new soil is used to grow veggies flowers etc. Cardboard plastic etc is baled, backloaded and shipped to India as deck cargo in small ore ships where every scrap is used.
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Now there's an idea for a new business venture.... a worm farm!! I don't think there are any in this country, but perhaps there are! I have a wormery and get wonderful compost and liquid fertiliser from it. Surely the companies who collect waste could diversify and give customers a bin for waste food, which could then be used in a worm farm. If the Aussies can do it, why can't we?
Like every other area of recycling, I think it has been proven that the only way to encourage people to do it is to charge for the alternative, which is landfill! If it was cheaper to recycle it, then people would do it! There doesn't seem to be the will to get an organised system set up though. We have come a long way in this country, but the pace is painfully slow!