There Is A Lot Of Money In Waste
January 3, 2022
COP26 saw Australia get some negative press in both social media, news and offline media, think big billboards in lights on busy city intersections kind of messaging.
The reason why the world was looking at us in disbelief is probably because they saw David Attenborough's; Life On Planet Earth and his statement of how we change to save it. We have to do some huge changes a lot sooner than 2050.
We have till 2031 to lower our carbon footprint by 50% to keep our temp increase to 1.5deg otherwise we are going to slide into irreversible climate change taking us out of the Holocene era into an era that will lead to a loss of 50% of the worlds species. And not a large amount of insects either. Polar Caps gone, Polar Bears, gone, Great Barrier Reef, gone.
So how do we stop this? We squeeze every last drop out of the resources we are extracting or have extracted from the planet and reverse the damage we have done and create less waste along the way. Nothing is wasted in nature and nature is the key to finding a use for everything we produce/use.
POSITIVE CHANGE IS COMING - BUT WE NEED TO WORK AT IT
Waste As A Commodity
By 2024 we can no longer export our waste. Due to the National Recycling Act by 2024 we can no longer export our waste, so this presents some exciting opportunities for people who have a head for business.
This one policy is going to change a lot of things, especially how we produce, sort and repurpose the things we consume.
There is going to be an abundance of waste and sending it to landfill because that's what the linear economy did with it. What we didn't realise till it became a problem too big to ignore is that it produces Methane and reducing our Methane is one of the fastest ways that we can reduce our impact on climate change so that is where the disruption is happening first. But there is a lot more.
Illisa Ocko's Ted Talk will get you started on your research and why it's a key piece to data we will be reporting in our Mapping The Doughnut Project we are starting this year, 2022. It's a critical driver to fast results.
2022 + beyond is going to be exciting, the reduce climate change puzzle is coming together.
Repurposing this waste is going to change the way we produce things as we need to reuse and reduce at the same time and that is where the skillset of regenerative design will create new products, new systems and easier sustainability in both a home and commercial situation.
When there are policies, acts and grants we have business disruption, when 90% of our waste is high quality we have the beginnings of a new economy. The solutions offer cost savings for the existing business owner and a low cost commodity for the waste entrepreneur and then a low carbon commodity for industry to use and get Australia on track to hit Zero Carbon emissions faster.
That's it in a nutshell, unpacking it is what we are doing in the rest of our blogs, vlogs and tutorials.
Important Facts + Links;
National Recycling Act - Trevor Evans Federal Member For Brisbane
By 2024, we can no longer export any waste. We have to deal with it here.
The Recycling Modernisation Fund for QLD was only $20million from Fed, $20million from State; EXPIRED
National Waste Action Plan 80% recovery rate from waste by 2030, halve organic waste to landfill < methane issue, we should make it 100% FOGO Bins can fix this.
Regenerative and Distributive Design - the key to circular economy.
ReMade Australia Campaign; <<< Click There
Remember that the green dollar, buy 0 to low carbon products yes we can track that, can influence change before policies and grants pick up on it. �55357;�56474;
The reason why the world was looking at us in disbelief is probably because they saw David Attenborough's; Life On Planet Earth and his statement of how we change to save it. We have to do some huge changes a lot sooner than 2050.
We have till 2031 to lower our carbon footprint by 50% to keep our temp increase to 1.5deg otherwise we are going to slide into irreversible climate change taking us out of the Holocene era into an era that will lead to a loss of 50% of the worlds species. And not a large amount of insects either. Polar Caps gone, Polar Bears, gone, Great Barrier Reef, gone.
So how do we stop this? We squeeze every last drop out of the resources we are extracting or have extracted from the planet and reverse the damage we have done and create less waste along the way. Nothing is wasted in nature and nature is the key to finding a use for everything we produce/use.
POSITIVE CHANGE IS COMING - BUT WE NEED TO WORK AT IT
Waste As A Commodity
By 2024 we can no longer export our waste. Due to the National Recycling Act by 2024 we can no longer export our waste, so this presents some exciting opportunities for people who have a head for business.
This one policy is going to change a lot of things, especially how we produce, sort and repurpose the things we consume.
There is going to be an abundance of waste and sending it to landfill because that's what the linear economy did with it. What we didn't realise till it became a problem too big to ignore is that it produces Methane and reducing our Methane is one of the fastest ways that we can reduce our impact on climate change so that is where the disruption is happening first. But there is a lot more.
Illisa Ocko's Ted Talk will get you started on your research and why it's a key piece to data we will be reporting in our Mapping The Doughnut Project we are starting this year, 2022. It's a critical driver to fast results.
2022 + beyond is going to be exciting, the reduce climate change puzzle is coming together.
Repurposing this waste is going to change the way we produce things as we need to reuse and reduce at the same time and that is where the skillset of regenerative design will create new products, new systems and easier sustainability in both a home and commercial situation.
When there are policies, acts and grants we have business disruption, when 90% of our waste is high quality we have the beginnings of a new economy. The solutions offer cost savings for the existing business owner and a low cost commodity for the waste entrepreneur and then a low carbon commodity for industry to use and get Australia on track to hit Zero Carbon emissions faster.
That's it in a nutshell, unpacking it is what we are doing in the rest of our blogs, vlogs and tutorials.
Important Facts + Links;
National Recycling Act - Trevor Evans Federal Member For Brisbane
By 2024, we can no longer export any waste. We have to deal with it here.
The Recycling Modernisation Fund for QLD was only $20million from Fed, $20million from State; EXPIRED
National Waste Action Plan 80% recovery rate from waste by 2030, halve organic waste to landfill < methane issue, we should make it 100% FOGO Bins can fix this.
Regenerative and Distributive Design - the key to circular economy.
ReMade Australia Campaign; <<< Click There
Remember that the green dollar, buy 0 to low carbon products yes we can track that, can influence change before policies and grants pick up on it. �55357;�56474;
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