Waste Plastic Saving Water – Solving two problems with one strategy
Australia’s current water management is archaic – rainwater is carried miles in costly pipes and poured into the sea. In the dry season sea water is pulled back through billions of dollars’ worth of desalination plants and pumped through massive pipes back up to the mountains. This not only incurs a huge amount of energy but the end result is now brackish water being returned to where it originally fell. In this article, Fiona Mathews, founder of registered charity, Earth Champions Foundation, explains her innovative project, Waste Saving Water (WSW) that aims to turn polypropylene food containers into underground water cells that create aquifers.
