Clean Up Our Waste

Australia's waste challenges go far beyond one day

 

As one of the country’s most recognised and trusted environmental organisations, Clean Up Australia has helped Australians take practical environmental action for over 30 years. In fact Clean Up Australia Day is now the nation's largest community-based environmental event. 

 

But Australia’s waste challenges continue to grow. Now, more than ever, it’s time to Step Up and support solutions which move us towards a circular economy – where everything is a resource, and there is no such thing as waste.

 

Australians produce 540kg of household waste per person, each year.* That's more than 10kg for every single person, every single week. Of the estimated 67 million tonnes of waste Australians generated in 2017, just 37 was recycled, leaving 21.7 disposed of in landfill. It's estimated about 130,000 tonnes of Australian plastic ends up in our waterways and oceans each year.

 

What can YOU do?

 

Refuse. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Compost

 

We make very little use of the resources we already extract when we could be feeding them back into the resource loop, preventing rubbish entering the environment and waste going to landfill.

 

*The 2018 National Waste Policy

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