Taking a trip to the tip was almost a right of passage many years ago. You’d clean out the house or the shed, load up the ute, and take all of your junk to the closest Sydney tip. Then, you might help the tip staff pull your items out of the back of the ute, where it would be pushed around by large tractors or vehicles.
These days, the story is a little different. Tips and recycling centres are much more focused on sorting waste materials, to ensure that everything that can be recycled, is recycled. This creates a much more efficient and environmentally friendly operation. However, many tips have piles of landfill that remains unsorted.
The average Sydney tip contains a huge range of waste, much of it very old, and unsorted. In fact, there are millions of tons of unsorted rubbish and junk in tips all over Australia. Below, we’ll take a look at what kinds of waste are often present in these landfills.
Common types of waste that you would find at a Sydney tip
Garden waste
Garden waste is an incredibly common waste type at home and in businesses around Sydney. It’s also a waste type that you’re guaranteed to find at your local Sydney tip. There are probably tons of clippings, branches, soil, and decaying plant matter hidden within or at the bottom of your local Sydney tip.
These days, green waste and garden waste are processed properly and turned into compost or other reusable elements like firewood. Therefore, we’re able to avoid placing garden waste into landfills at all. That’s a much better result for the environment, as it prevents the release of excess methane while providing a use for this material.
Furniture
People and businesses have been disposing of furniture for years. Now, if you take old furniture to the tip, it may well be recovered by the waste recovery team. After that, the furniture may be sold secondhand, or dedicated. This is a far better result than the millions of items of old furniture that are languishing in landfills in Sydney. At Sydney City Rubbish, we remove plenty of furniture from offices and commercial businesses alike, but we ensure that the furniture is always dealt with in a sustainable manner.
Household items
Cleaning out your home results in plenty of household waste. Whether that’s a spring clean or a more regular decluttering, there are plenty of household items in the average Sydney tip. This might include items like clothing, small appliances, toys, miscellaneous possessions, and plenty of other household waste. In fact, who knows what you might find in your local Sydney tip!
Appliances
In the past, whenever your washing machine or dryer came to the end of its operational life, you’d simply dump it at the tip. There were no facilities for stripping down the appliances to reuse the scrap metal, plastics, and any other components within the appliance. In modern times, it’s much easier to entirely recycle appliances, but in older landfills, many appliances remain buried.
Electronic waste
Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a modern waste management problem. Computers, televisions, phones, tablets, and any other electronic items or accessories are often dumped into landfills. However, these items contain heavy metals and chips that can be recycled and reused in new manufacturing processes.
What’s more, e-waste that is incorrectly disposed of can cause pollution. Items like phones contain chemicals, and when these break down and enter soil or waterways, they can have a serious impact on the surrounding environment. That might include killing plants and wildlife, or even affecting drinking water.
At Sydney City Rubbish, we’re partnered with e-waste facilities to ensure that electronic items can be properly recycled or disposed of. This keeps items out of landfills, and sends a larger volume of material back into the manufacturing stream.
Construction and demolition waste
Construction waste is a huge, and very real problem in Australia. Over the years, a huge amount of timber, scrap metal, plastic, rubble, and more, has been disposed of in landfills. These materials, of which many can be reused, fill millions of cubic metres of space. Over the next few years, landfill mining techniques may allow access to some of these materials, enabling them to be reused one day.
The importance of The Three R’s
The Three R’s refers to reusing, repurposing, and recycling. The Three R’s are the foundation of sustainable waste management, and prioritising this approach will lead to more eco-friendly outcomes. At Sydney City Rubbish, we understand the damage that dumping waste into landfills can cause down the track. What’s more, recycling and reusing preserves virgin resources, by decreasing the need for additional materials for the manufacturing process.
Sustainable Sydney rubbish removal today
Are you looking for sustainable Sydney rubbish removal? At Sydney City Rubbish, we’re the best in the business and we always prioritise environmentally friendly waste management. Get in touch with us today for an obligation-free Sydney rubbish removal quote today.
