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New South Wales introduced its scheme in 2017 [128] and was quickly followed by Australian Capital Territory [129] and Queensland [130] in 2018, Western Australia in 2020, [131] and Victoria late 2023. [132] Collected containers have been treated both domestically and overseas. [5]
Early modern England measured firewood in terms of billets and bavins. A billet, [24] like a bavin, was a piece of kindling wood. [25] The 16th C standardised a billet as three foot four inches in length, and ten inches around (for open fires); and a bavin as three foot long and two feet round (a chunkier log, often used for ovens). [26]
In some New South Wales councils, a blue lid is used for paper and cardboard recycling, and Victoria is currently rolling out a purple lid bin for glass recycling. [21] [22] In 2018/19, 63% of all waste produced in Australia was recycled or recovered. [23] In 2016–2017, 46% of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) was recycled. [24]
The Forestry Corporation of NSW is a state-owned corporation that has been appointed to manage environmental conservation, community access, tourism, fire, land management and renewable timber production across 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) of public land on behalf of the NSW Government.
In 1871, as settlement advanced through the Colony of New South Wales, with land cleared for cultivation, trees ringbarked for grazing and timber used for the development, the first forest reserves were proclaimed with the aim of preserving the timber resource of the colony. [3] By 1905, more than three million hectares of land was in timber ...
Container deposit legislation (CDL), also known as a container deposit scheme (CDS), is a scheme that was first implemented in South Australia in 1977 and over the decades has spread to the Northern Territory in 2012, New South Wales in 2017, the Australian Capital Territory in June 2018, Queensland in November 2018, Western Australia in October 2020 and Victoria in November 2023.
In the United States and Canada, firewood is usually sold by the cord, 128 ft 3 (3.62 m 3), corresponding to a woodpile 8 ft wide × 4 ft high of 4 ft-long logs. The cord is legally defined by statute in most U.S. states. A "thrown cord" is firewood that has not been stacked and is defined as 4 ft wide × 4 ft tall × 10 ft long.
Granville is a suburb in Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Granville is located 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of the Sydney central business district, split between the local government areas of Cumberland City Council and the City of Parramatta. South Granville is a separate suburb. Lisgar, Redfern, Heath and Mona ...