China’s foreign recycling rule to lift council rates
Tony Khoury, of the Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association, says spending guidelines are needed. Picture: James Croucher
This makes me extremely furious!!! MORE excuses to steal more money from us rate payers!!!! I refuse to accept this!!!! I WONT pay more just because our screwed up government is too lazy to set up a proper recycling plant cheaply here!!!! LOOK at norway for example!! SELL them the rubbish or copy their way of recycling but do not slug us any more!!!! I will cause a rally protest!
The Nordic countries recycle almost all their waste and we should be able to do the same. But we have lazy governments with not enough brains to work it out. Rates will go up, they’ll dig dirty great holes and bury it all…..for sure. Too dumb.
hahah, First it was the best fruit and veg, then it was the best beef. Now it’s the best waste. Poor old Oz. What’s on the tele ?
Shining example of public versus private sector. Council says they need to hike rates due to increased cost rather than finding efficiencies internally.
Our business had sticked hygiene and control of all our recycling and were rewarded very well for it from our Chinese market where other recyclers just sent them what ever all mixed up and in reality trash.We kept all our plastics in there in there types and even recycled polystyrene which was very valuable., councils and others claim that polystyrene is not recyclable.Well it is if done properly, also plastic can be recycled in to products here cheaply and efficiently, it is only a matter of using ones brains and governments and councils just don’t appear to have any (brains) that is.The difficulty’s we had with government and councils was unbelievable and they were not interested in doing anything.
Deliver the waste to your local Greens candidate , they know everything including why they continue to oppose incineration of waste to create power.
We could follow the NewYork council who compresses their waste loads it onto barges and takes it our into the Atlantic Ocean and dumps it as there is no land fill areas in their area . Great example to the rest of the world trying to control waste and why are the greens silent on this .
It’s pretty embarrassing that we dispose of our rubbish off shore. Very short sighted. Rather than look at other ways of dumping perhaps some entrepreneurs will find ways to mitigate the packaging manufacturers foist on us in the name of market differentiation. Biodegradable products, high temperature furnaces, composting, etc. it’s implied that the cost of collecting, sorting, transporting, recycling using energy hungry processes is not commercially viable in Australia. Is this true? Perhaps we need some courageous politicians to impose environmental restrictions on the volume and materials manufacturers use for packaging as well as life cycle obligations on their products. Increased council rate is just the thin edge of the wedge. We can do better.
Australia should wake up to recycle things probably. In couple of state They have started to recycle plastic bottles already. In Finland more than 90% of bottles and cans are recycled because of a Good recycling. We have deposit for every bottle. It is reasonably Good business as Well. It could make economical growth in Australia. At the moment I am quite sure that Australia is quilty for big part of all the plastic in the sea.
Before we discuss recycling we need to take one step back and deal with reducing waste. What is the point of having each piece of fruit individually wrapped, and then pack half a dozen of them in a clear plastic, and then put these in a plastic tray and then in a box? If we reduce the wrappings we would have less waste to recycle
How is it that some councils are looking at turning garbage into power and putting that power into the grid? If there is a dollar in regenerating recyclables into further usable item, and there must be because China has turned it into big business, then why aren’t Australian manufacturing doing it and selling back onto the world market?
More links to this Article – Mick Raven
The waste crisis that China has inflicted on Australian councils will likely push up rates
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/council-rates-china-waste-recycling-2018-2
Victorian councils expected to raise rates as China recycling crisis takes hold
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-21/victorian-councils-consider-rate-rise-to-tackle-recycling-crisis/9680058
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