Recycling plant blaze a “major blow”

A massive fire has destroyed a recycling plant in Perth’s southern suburbs, putting at risk one of the largest community recycling programs in Australia.

The fire at the recycling facility, one of three components of the Regional Resource Recovery Centre, was reported about 1am and has destroyed the recycling plant.
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Up to 100 sea containers of recycled products may have to be dumped in landfill over the next two weeks after a fire destroyed Western Australia's largest recycling facility, in Canning Vale, early today.
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A BLAZE that engulfed a controversial recycling plant in Canning Vale is the second fire at the site in weeks.
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It's the plant I've just visited with my students Sustainable Design in March.


update 3 June:
Recycling waste sent to landfill following fire