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Where does it travel? Where does it end up?
There are over 163,000 hectares of protected and open catchments in Melbourne and 10 water storage reservoirs. Many of the reservoirs are interconnected; this helps to ensure that water can be transferred, increasing the system's reliability.
This is an image of the rainfall, river and catchments in Melbourne.
Where does our rubbish end up?
Most of the rubbish that you throw away ends up in landfills. Landfills are nothing but dumping sites where your rubbish remains permanently. Once a landfill becomes full, it is covered up, and a new landfill is created. Rubbish dumped into landfills slowly degrades and decomposes over time. i am busting help me
How much rubbish ends up in the landfill?
The most up-to-date stats show Australians generated 67 million tonnes of waste in 2016-2017. Of that, about 54 million tonnes is known as "core waste", and is dealt with by the waste and resource recovery industry. The rest is things like ash from electricity generation, mud from refining, manure from farming and liquid waste like sewage — stuff that can't be picked up by a rubbish truck on bin day.
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