Waste management is a big problem for Australia. Australian population continues to grow and we need to use more and more resources and creating more waste. Wastes are substances that have no further use and if disposed of in land water or air can harm humans or the environment. If we don’t do something for the amount of waste that is produced there is a risk that we may run out of room in landfills or even run out of resources and I conducted the surveys from my friends and neighbours to check how many rubbish we need to waste and what is that.
I conducted 20 surveys asking them about type and amount of waste that they generate each week. The results showed that about 35% of people have 2 bags of rubbish per day. And about 25% of people have 1 and 3 bags of rubbish per day. The rest of them have 8+ bags per week. Do you know how large of the number for the rubbish? If an average weight of 2 kg per bag that’s mean we got about 116+kg per week for 20 household. If we have 23 million people in Australia that’s mean we need to waste about 113.4 million rubbishes per week. That’s a really huge number. And then I want to tell them about which strategies they need to be using to make a positive impact on waste management. If we still waste that lot may be one day all the landfill are full and we have to found a new place to set the rubbish and at that time we will be really regret.
The survey result also showed that there were a number of different types of waste thrown out in each household. Just like I think before most of them are food waste (29%) and the following are plastic (21%) garden waste (18%) paper product (15%) glass (10%) miscellaneous (5%) and the last one is aluminium (2%). As you see food waste still pretty much but we can’t do anything to that right? Therefore we need to improve our waste management by recycling the paper product glass and aluminium rather putting them in the garbage. That will be helpful for reduce landfill and save resources. May be that just a really small number for the rubbishes waste but that will make landfill have a lot space to put other rubbish.
In the survey people were asked to rank which strategies they would be prepared to use to help better manage waste. Most people said use products that can be reused or recycled is the first one the next highest rank is choose to buy goods that have less packaging and join an environmental group establish a worm farm to reduce food waste and put rubbish in a bin not on the ground. The least popular choice is Volunteer to help on ‘clean up Australia day’. These choices show u people want to do something more easily to do and don’t need too much time to spend to do.
I think Australian people need to do one thing good and that does will be fine just need to improve our own waste management by recycling the paper glass and aluminium. If Australian government will check all the time and wanning people that will be more easily. Thank for reading.
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廢物管理是澳大利亞的一個大問題。澳大利亞人口繼續增長，我們需要使用越來越多的資源和創造更多的浪費。廢物是沒有進一步利用的物質，如果處置在陸地、水或空氣中，會危害人類或環境。如果我們不做一些廢物的生產量，有一個風險，我們可能會耗盡在垃圾填埋場的空間，甚至耗盡資源，我進行了調查，從我的朋友和鄰居，以檢查有多少垃圾，我們需要浪費，是什麼。
我進行了20次調查，詢問他們每周產生的廢物的類型和數量。結果表明，約35%的人每天有2袋垃圾。大約25%的人每天有1袋和3袋垃圾。其餘的人每周有8袋。你知道垃圾的數量有多大嗎?如果每個袋子的平均重量為2公斤，這意味著我們每周得到大約116 +公斤的20戶。如果我們在澳大利亞有2300萬人，這意味著我們需要浪費大約1億1340萬的垃圾每周。這是一個非常龐大的數字。然後，我想告訴他們，他們需要使用哪些策略對廢物管理產生積極的影響。如果我們仍然浪費了很多，也許有一天所有的垃圾填埋場是充分的，我們必須找到一個新的地方設定垃圾，在那個時候，我們將是真正的遺憾。
調查結果還顯示，每家每戶都有一些不同類型的垃圾被扔掉。就像我以前認為的，大部分是食物垃圾(29%)，下面是塑膠(21%)，花園垃圾(18%)，紙製品(15%)，玻璃(10%)，雜項(5%)，最後一個是鋁(3)。正如你看到的食物垃圾仍然相當多，但我們不能做任何事情，對不對?因此，我們需要通過回收紙製品、玻璃和鋁來改善廢物管理，而不是把它們放進垃圾桶里。這將有助於減少填埋和節約資源。可能是對於垃圾廢物只是一個很小的數字，但這將使垃圾有很多空間放其他垃圾。
在調查中，人們被要求排列哪些策略，他們將準備使用，以幫助更好地管理廢物。大多數人說，使用的產品，可重複使用或回收是第一個，下一個排名最高的是選擇購買的貨物，減少包裝和加入環保集團，建立一個蠕蟲農場，以減少食物浪費，把垃圾放在一個垃圾桶，而不是在地面上。最不受歡迎的選擇是自願幫助“清理澳大利亞日”。這些選擇表明你，人們想做的事情更容易做，不需要太多的時間去做。
我認為澳大利亞人民需要做一件好事，這將是罰款，只是需要改善我們自己的廢物管理，回收紙張，玻璃和鋁。如果澳大利亞政府將檢查所有的時間和萬寧人，那樣會更容易。