The global financial crisis has caused a 60 per cent crash in the price of recyclable goods and some WA recycling companies have no market for the material they have recovered, the nation’s peak recycling lobby says.“It would be an economic and environmental tragedy to see the few remaining recyclers go to the wall and without assistance from State and Federal governments that’s a very real possibility,”
Mr West said WA already had the unenviable reputation of being Australia’s worst recycler with just 20 per cent of material recycled — or almost half the national average.
But at least one council has found a use for recyclable material. The Shire of Manjimup is set to finally crush the “bottle mountain” which has dominated the town’s tip for the past two years. It will be turned into materials for concrete, drainage and road base.
Read full article here.
No comments:
Post a Comment