The team at bookabin is fascinated with the ingenuity of the Americans during their current heatwave! They have been turning an everyday dumpster (Known in Australia as a Skip Bin) into pools…When you can get a 40yard dumpster for less than $600 for a month, thats a pretty cheap pool…especially if you charge a cover charge to all the neighbourhood kids.So this coming summer will you be hiring a skip bin to use as a make shift pool?We know it gets extremely hot in Australia over summer, will we be seeing any skip bin pools especially in the suburbs away from the ocean such as Queensland 4152, Carindale, Carina Heights, Carina and Camp Hill?However if you wish to use the bin for traditional purposes have a look at what bookabin has on offer in  your area.So what do you think??? Genius or Gross?

A report on environmental trends says that each year every Australian creates one ton of rubbish, making the nation the second largest waste creator after the United States.

21 million tons of solid waste were put in landfills each year, equal to about 1.146 tons a person annually, or 3.14 kilograms a person each day. A significant amount of this was material classified as hazardous, such as old batteries, which people throw out with the rest of their household garbage.

A report on Australia’s biodiversity earlier this year found that nearly 1600 species are in danger of extinction because of human activities such as land clearing.

Consumption of water and energy throughout Australia is at a record high, and is likely to continue while standards of living are high, the Australian Bureau of Statistics report says. The bureau found that “in terms of sustainability, high resource consumption and increasing outputs of wastes are important features of Australian society and are related to the nation’s growing population and increasingly high standard of living”.

Environmental groups called for the creation of a “sustainability council” to address the country’s resource-guzzling habits, saying not enough was being done to encourage people to live in way that was less damaging to the environment.

Greenhouse gas emissions had risen 17.4 per cent between 1990 and 1999, from 390 million tons of carbon dioxide and its equivalents to 458 million tons. Domestic power consumption, including car use, accounted for one third of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.

Recent reports have highlighted Sydney’s increasing hunger for power but environmental groups have criticised the State Government for failing to adopt aggressive demand-management programs.

The director of the Total Environment Centre, Jeff Angel, said energy planners and governments needed to “lead the way to reduce Australia’s excessive share of greenhouse gas emissions”. “Demand can be easily reduced by energy efficiency programs if government and industry have the will to make them happen,” Mr Angel said.

The bureau did note Australians were recycling more, and more people had also indicated they were prepared to buy organically grown fruit and vegetables, which use less water and fewer chemicals.