Web-Resol Tudo sobre Limpeza Urbana e Resíduos Sólidos!
Recycling of used oil increased by more than 40 per cent during the last three years – from about 160 million litres a year, to over 230 million litres last year, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell said today.
"Australians have become very good at recycling their used oil, collecting and recycling about 80 per cent of the used oil generated last year," Senator Campbell said. "They‘‘re not only helping save the environment but they‘‘re also saving a valuable resource. "Disposing of used oil the wrong way can pollute land, water and infrastructure. Just one litre of used oil can contaminate up to one million litres of water."
Senator Campbell said two reviews of the Government‘‘s Product Stewardship for Oil Program, an industry incentive program to collect and recycle Australia‘‘s used oil, had found it was working well. "Since the program started in 2000, the Howard Government has provided over $10 million in funding to State and local governments to establish a network of used oil collection facilities," Senator Campbell said. "We have also invested in reducing technology bottlenecks. As a result, Australia‘‘s first re-refining plant is now up and running, taking used oil and re-refining it to produce over 5? million litres of as-new lubricating oil last year. "The Government intends to build on this success, and the reviews we commissioned identify our priority steps.
"More than 700 used oil collection facilities have been funded and more will be funded in coming years. In particular, we‘‘ll be focusing on the recycling of used oil in remote Australia and indigenous communities."
Artigos Relacionados
Check Also
Waste management poses challenges, but could unlock major environmental and economic gains
Every day, the city of Rio de Janeiro, one of the largest metropolises in the Southern Hemisphere, generates 17,000 tonnes of waste, ranging from large industrial debris to candy wrappers bought innocently at newspaper stands. While this waste presents a serious and urgent environmental challenge, it also fuels an increasingly significant portion of the economy, with benefits extending beyond financial gains. - When we look at developed European countries, many are already recycling between 40% and 50%, with some reaching 60%. From an economic standpoint, both recyclable materials and organic waste hold tremendous value - stated Adalberto Maluf, National Secretary for Environment and Environmental Quality at the Ministry of the Environment (MMA), during the Methane Forum: Climate Emergency Brake, at the Rio Nature and Climate Week. Citing a 2025 report, Maluf mentioned that Brazil literally throws away R$27 billion annually, while municipalities spend significantly more - R$45 billion - managing all this waste, often overlooking the environmental impact or economic potential buried in landfills and dumps. - We spend R$45 billion to collect and dispose of waste in landfills, yet we manage to recycle less than a third of the potential. I believe it will be necessary to review contracts, create performance-based remuneration mechanisms, and pay for both effectively sorted materials and those diverted from landfills - he added. According to the IBGE, 60.5% of Brazilian municipalities adopt some form of selective waste collection, and several initiatives serve as examples of how to manage city waste. In his panel presentation, Bernardo Ornelas, Project Coordinator at the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Urban Cleaning Company (Comlurb), highlighted Ecoparque do Caju, a national benchmark in waste management and recycling. There, received materials are sorted and can be used for biogas production, organic compounds for urban gardens, or human consumption, in the case of still...