Reusable Coffee Mug
Awareness Like many Australians, I try to do the "right thing" for the environment while still living a regular lifestyle in (the increasingly hipsterfied) Hobart. I use a reusable cup for takeaway coffee, have a selection of non-plastic bags I take grocery shopping, and try to make choices to buy things with as little packaging as possible. But a quick look into whether these behaviors are really the "right things" to be doing left me depressed, discouraged and feeling defeated. Australia's recycling systems still rely heavily on shipping our waste to other countries for them to deal with. Getting customers Since China largely stopped accepting our waste in 2018, this has meant much of what could be recycled is being sent to landfill or is sitting in stockpiles, waiting for something to happen. My week without buying plastic One week's worth of plastic. We try to avoid it, but plastic is everywhere. Here's how one reporter's seven-day test...