Information on the Queensland Water Commission’s website on saving water around the home, including in the garden, from taps, dishwashers, and washing machines.
Links to water restriction and rebate information, ‘water wise’ planting in the garden, online house ‘water efficiency’ testing form, and water efficiency labelling.
This 2006 report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics contains information and statistics on environmental behaviour and practices of Australian households and individuals. The survey collected information on a range of issues including waste recycling and reuse, disposal of hazardous waste materials and awareness and use of waste disposal facilities.
This section of the Uranium Information Centre provides information on different types of radioactive waste, waste from the nuclear fuel cycle and solutions to disposing these hazardous wastes.
This fact sheet provides information on how to recycle used oil, impact from mishandled oil waste and incentives provided by the Government to increase used oil recycling within the Australian community.
This 2006 report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics contains information and statistics on the proportion of households that recycle and re-use waste and methods used recycle this household waste.
This report by the Australian Productivity Commission examines ways and makes recommendations on how resource efficiencies can be optimised to improve economic, environmental and social outcomes in Australia.
Section of the Optimum Population Trust website, displaying indepth the effects which a growing population (particularly overpopulation), and its consequent development and infrastructure, has on the environment and biodiversity. There is also a focus on the United Kingdom and a subsection on the problems of waste infrastructure. Website also includes another section, titled Links, featuring a list of sites about population, demographics, resources, and environment.
This section of the website focuses on incineration as a waste treatment technology and provides information on types of incinerators available, advantages and disadvantages of using incinerators and trends in incinerator use in the U.S., UK and other developing countries.
This section of the website provides information on how to collect dangerous landfill gas and use that to produce electricity through new landfill gas technology available in California.
Results from a study by the Total Environment Centre highlighting the problem of large amounts of electronic waste (e-waste) items building up in Australian landfills.
(ABC News, 12/12/08)
Great Barrier Reef will die by carbon, scientists say
Environmentalists and scientists stress that the Australian Government’s low emissions target has condemned the Great Barrier Reef to destruction And will impact the reef’s tourist industry. This is due to rising temperatures and ocean acidification causing wide-spread coral bleaching and coral disease.
(ABC News, 15/12/08)