Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Ruby's Rubbish Record Reflection



After collecting data on our family's waste for two weeks, I have discovered that we throw out a lot but most of what we throw out should not end up in landfill. The type of rubbish we produce the most of is food waste, with over 8 kilos created in two weeks. We produce less waste than Suzie's family, but she has more people in her family.

There are many different solutions we could use to deal with our waste.
The first solution is to refuse or reduce the things we buy with packaging or choose those that won't end up in landfill.

For the food waste, and some of the recyclable waste like paper and cardboard, composting or a worm farm would be solutions. You can buy worms and worm farms from places like Bunnings.



These are very expensive though. You can actually build your own out of boxes like this


and get a friend to give you worms from their farm, to keep the cost down.

Or you can get some chickens and they will eat your food scraps, give you eggs and make great pets!






Another thing that you can do with waste paper is that you can use it to make new paper, like this


For soft plastic waste, reducing the amount you buy in it is good, but when you have to get some there is a company named Redcycle that have bins in some supermarkets, like these.
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They will recycle your soft plastic  into things like benches and tables.



For other Recycling and landfill waste, you should reduce what you buy in packaging and reuse and repurpose what you can't avoid as much as possible to give it new life, like in these images below.
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Sunday 27 August

Day fourteen of the waste record
Our daily waste includes:


Our recycling for the day




Our soft plastic waste for the day:



 Our food waste for the day:

Our other waste for the day:

 Our total waste for Sunday for our family of three was 1336 grams.

Monday, August 28, 2017

Saturday 26th August

Day thirteen of the waste record
Our daily waste includes:


Our recycling for the day




Our soft plastic waste for the day:



 Our food waste for the day:

Our other waste for the day:

 Our total waste for Saturday for our family of three was 1341 grams.

Friday 25th August

Day twelve of the waste record
Our daily waste includes:


Our recycling for the day




Our soft plastic waste for the day:



 Our food waste for the day:



 Our total waste for Friday for our family of three was 1188 grams.

Friday, August 25, 2017

Thursday 24th August

Day eleven of the waste record
Our daily waste includes:


Our recycling for the day:


Our soft plastic waste for the day:



 Our food waste for the day:


 Our total waste for Thursday for our family of three was 893 grams.

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Wednesday 23rd August

Day ten of the waste record
Our daily waste includes:


Our recycling for the day




Our soft plastic waste for the day:



 Our food waste for the day:


 Our total waste for Wednesday for our family of three was 717 grams.

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Tuesday 22nd August

Day nine of the waste record
Our daily waste includes:


Our recycling for the day




Our soft plastic waste for the day:


 Our food waste for the day:

Our other waste for the day:

 Our total waste for Tuesday for our family of three was 1485 grams.

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Monday 21st August

Day eight of the waste record
Our daily waste includes:


Our recycling for the day




Our soft plastic waste for the day:



 Our food waste for the day:



 Our total waste for Monday for our family of three was 797 grams. 

Monday, August 21, 2017

Sunday 20th August

Day seven of the waste record
Our daily waste includes:


Our recycling for the day


Our soft plastic waste for the day:

 Our food waste for the day:


Our other waste for the day:

 Our total waste for Sunday for our family of three was 1141.

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Saturday 19th August

Day six of the waste record
Our daily waste includes:


Our recycling for the day



Our soft plastic waste for the day:


 Our food waste for the day:


Our other waste for the day:


 Our total waste for Saturday for our family of three was 1797 grams.

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Friday 18th August

Day five of the waste record
Our daily waste includes:


Our recycling for the day


Our soft plastic waste for the day:



 Our food waste for the day:


 Our total waste for Tuesday for our family of three was 643 grams.

Ruby's Rubbish Record Reflection

After collecting data on our family's waste for two weeks, I have discovered that we throw out a lot but most of what we throw out sho...