New facilities for recycling and organic waste
The ACT government is to build organic and materials recycling recycling facilities in Hume following the Boxing Day fire.
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As aged care homes nationwide struggle to manage incontinence pad waste, an Australian-first trial looks at an oxygen-less incinerator as the solution, writes JOANNA GUELAS
ABOUT 36 tonnes of recycling material a day is being diverted to a recycling centre in western Sydney following the Boxing Day fire at the Hume Material Recovery Facility.
Canberra's first reverse vending machine is now operating at Erindale Shopping Centre in Wanniassa, allowing people to earn money for depositing cans, bottles and other recyclable containers.
Grumpy / What next, bin ransackers in the night?
Reader BJORN MOORE, of Gowrie, is grumpy about the effects of foragers trolling through bins for 10-cent recycling containers
Moore / Rubbish responses to recycling crisis
"We have a government hell bent on leaving decisions to the private sector. Thanks to such ideology Australia has allowed China to take the high moral ground," writes MICHAEL MOORE
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