Landfill charges to rise sharply

THE cost of dumping rubbish in landfill will escalate dramatically under a state government plan to encourage recycling and create ''green jobs''.
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Microchips, recycling ramped up to cut waste
LOCAL councils are microchipping bins, reducing bin sizes, putting up fees and cutting collections in a bid to get households to dramatically reduce waste.

But environmentalists fear their efforts could be thwarted by the NSW government's lack of planning and spending on recycling and waste disposal.

Waste solution left to rot as landfill capacity runs out
SYDNEY'S rubbish dumps will be full within six years, according to an independent report which the NSW government swept under the carpet after receiving it a year ago.

It's cheaper to bury than recycle: councils
COUNCILS with state-of-the-art recycling technology claim they are being penalised by the NSW government and may have to revert to simply burying their waste.

At Port Macquarie 66 per cent of all waste is recycled and what is left is only sent to landfill after it has been biologically stabilised and compacted so that it gives off little methane gas and does not become wind-blown litter.

Now in the Eastern states... can we prevent this in WA by taking the rigth measures?