Maybe you’re starting a big home or garden project with lots of different waste types to dispose of when you’re done. And you don’t want all the waste sent to landfills. What’s the environmental impact of hiring a skip bin? Skip bins ensure your waste is handled in the most sustainable way possible. Using an eco-friendly skip reduces your environmental footprint. Let’s look at 7 reasons hiring skip bins is a sustainable solution.
1. Make waste disposal more efficient
Imagine having to take every type of waste from your project to the tip yourself. With skip bins, the skip bin hire company saves you a lot of time by dropping off and picking up the bins. Hiring skip bins also reduces fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by consolidating the load. Because bins compact the load, more waste can be transported. And just one truck can carry tonnes of waste. One truck trip may equal 10 trips or more for a homeowner.
2. Make more recycling happen
Reliable skip bin hire companies follow recycling practices by providing separate bins for different materials. Recyclable materials are sorted early, reducing waste that ends up in landfill sites. By partnering with recycling and resource facilities, skip bin hire providers make recycling efficient. Using skip bins allows around 90% of waste materials to be recycled, vastly minimising the amount of waste that goes into landfills.
3. Encourage materials to be recycled or repurposed
By sorting your waste right at the start, skip bins promote recycling materials like construction debris and organic waste. Here are a few examples:
- Green or garden waste (grass clippings, leaves, branches) is made into compost.
- Concrete, timber, and bricks can be recycled and used again.
- Metals and plastics can be repurposed as new products.
And it’s working. The contents of green waste skip bins are recycled into mulch or compost bought by the community. Nutrients go back into the ground, improving soil health and sequestering carbon. The ACT recovers more than 90% of green waste rather than burying it in a landfill.
4. Conserve natural resources sustainably
Since many skip bins help to sort and recycle construction materials, they conserve our natural resources for a sustainable future. Most of Canberra’s concrete and brick waste is crushed and reused as road base, reducing the need for mining new aggregate. Scrap metal can also be recycled, requiring fewer raw materials to be mined.
5. Contain waste in an eco-friendly way
Wind and heavy rain can scatter waste from a construction site or garden renovation. Loose waste can end up in stormwater drains, travelling to rivers and oceans. Skip bins contain the waste, preventing plastics and other debris from contaminating local ecosystems.
6. Prevent illegal dumping
Illegal dumping, also called ‘fly-tipping’, damages the environment and pollutes water. Skip bins give people a convenient, legal, and environmentally conscious way to get rid of waste. That’s a lot better than dumping waste in a reserve or on the side of the road!
Dispose of hazardous waste properly
Skip bin companies carefully define and enforce what can be put in a skip bin. Because hazardous materials like asbestos, chemicals, and batteries cannot go in a skip, residents and businesses learn to use proper waste disposal practices rather than tossing them like rubbish into a general waste bin. If you’re not sure about whether something can be placed in skip bins, ask your skip bin hire provider.
Ready for a skip bin hire?
Got a big project and want to choose the right way to handle the waste responsibly? For these 7 reasons alone, consider waste disposal with skip bins today. Tell us about your project, and we’ll advise you about skip hire and the appropriate bin size.