Sustainability

[SydneyRover]

SS you asked about this the other week, there are two of us in the house and we have just had a look at our water and we have reduced our usage over time to to about 140lts/day/person which gives us a smug factor of +1 as it's below average use for a small to medium sized house 

We have a bucket in the shower to collect the cold water which is used to water the garden.

The Sydney area is now using water from a desal plant. You can see ave usage in the home-efficiency in the link.

https://www.sydneywater.com.au/SW/index.h

Recycling here is all over the place at the moment we have 3 bins, general rubbish which goes to landfill, plastic containers/metal cans/metal foil which is resorted and recycled/ glass bottles which is recycled, maybe. At the moment as China is refusing our plastic waste due to contamination it's probably being buried. We recycle soft plastic bags and similar back to a supermarket collection point that delivers them to a manufacturer that make outdoor furniture with it.

As the other bills come in I will post our energy usage.

We live close to shops and transport so the car doesn't get a lot of use only around 2-3 thousand klm/year but will check.

[scawsby steve]

SS you asked about this the other week, there are two of us in the house and we have just had a look at our water and we have reduced our usage over time to to about 140lts/day/person which gives us a smug factor of +1 as it's below average use for a small to medium sized house 

We have a bucket in the shower to collect the cold water which is used to water the garden.

The Sydney area is now using water from a desal plant. You can see ave usage in the home-efficiency in the link.

https://www.sydneywater.com.au/SW/index.h

Recycling here is all over the place at the moment we have 3 bins, general rubbish which goes to landfill, plastic containers/metal cans/metal foil which is resorted and recycled/ glass bottles which is recycled, maybe. At the moment as China is refusing our plastic waste due to contamination it's probably being buried. We recycle soft plastic bags and similar back to a supermarket collection point that delivers them to a manufacturer that make outdoor furniture with it.

As the other bills come in I will post our energy usage.

We live close to shops and transport so the car doesn't get a lot of use only around 2-3 thousand klm/year but will check.

Like I said Sydney, no-one can beat my zero carbon footprint.

[SydneyRover]

No emmissions at all then? 

[ravenrover]

Only from the rear 😆

[scawsby steve]

Only from the rear 😆

Wey Hey. You know all about my methane emissions Raven, but I can assure you they can't match those from Dave the Vicar.