What happens to our waste? Australians produce approximately 43.8million tonnes of waste in ONE YEAR. This is about 2080 kilograms of waste per person. Waste is the name given to everything that we throw away. After it is collected from your rubbish bin, some waste is burned, but most of it is buried in big holes in the ground called landfill sites. This causes problems because both burning and burying release chemicals which are bad for the environment. We are also running out of places to bury rubbish!
Go to Ollie's World and discover everything you need to know about waste from packaging, to creating your own compost and how to recycle different materials...
http://www.olliesworld.com/aus/html/explore.html
Conduct your own science experiment on the biodegradability of different materials.http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Enviro-imprints/Teaching-and-Learning-Approaches/Biodegradability-experiment
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