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The State of the Waste and Resource Recovery Industry in Australia

The Waste Management Association of Australia (WMAA) is the national peak body for the waste and resource recovery Sector in Australia. The waste management sector provides an essential service for Australians. The industry itself is made up of 50,000 people who work hard every day and are passionate about recycling and recovering resources.

"Unfortunately, there are some operators who do not meet the high standards which the majority of the industry follows. That's why good regulation is needed to continue to develop a waste and recycling industry which is fair, safe and sustainable for all," said WMAA CEO, Gayle Sloan.

The issue of interstate transportation and landfill levies is not new. Industry and WMAA have been highlighting the problem of landfill price disparity for years. The solution is a harmonised approach to landfill levies across Australia, which need to be set at a high enough level to reflect the true cost of landfilling, and to encourage alternative recycling approaches. read more www.wmaa.asn.au/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=WMAA/ccms.r    

What's the future of EPS in Australia?

By end of December 2022, EPS (Expanded Poly Styrene) is being phased out across product packaging as well as single-use plastics used in the food industry. Read more to see if your business will be affected and need to comply.

National Plastics Plan — Pathway to more sustainable use of expanded polystyrene (EPS) (epsa.org.au)

NSW Waste to landfill levy 2017 – 2018 on the rise

Nearly all states in Australia have some kind of tax on waste going to landfill. The most expensive of these is in NSW, where the Government has a range of policies in place to increase recycling and divert valuable resources from landfill back into the economy. The key economic instrument for greater waste avoidance and resource recovery is the waste levy and is adjusted 1 July each year. 

The EPA has advised the levy shall increase by the CPI this year. In effect, the levy at landfills in the extended regulated area, stretching from the Hunter to Illawarra, will charge $138.50 per tonne. This levy is collected at the gate by the landfill operator on behalf of the government in addition to its own disposal fees.

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NSW Govt helps small companies reduce their costs by encouraging them to recycle more (Posted Nov 2016)

A Sydney timber frame and truss manufacturer recently bought two timber recycling bins and received half the cost of them back from NSW Government as part of a program to help small and medium-sized business reduce waste and recycle more.

While Trueform recycle the untreated pine offcuts and sawdust generated by the manufacturing process, a cost-effective system for recycling the offcuts of termite treated H2F and engineered woods hadn’t been found. Or so they thought.

“Following a visit from Joe Tesoriero of Advantage Recycling we discussed some options and thought some high capacity wheeled tippler bins under the primary component saw would work well. These could be loaded by our forklift into a larger recycling bin. Stephen Mitchell made me aware of the Bin Trim recycling equipment rebate scheme so we worked together to design the bins we needed and get approval from the EPA for a rebate for the tippler bins if we went ahead and ordered.”

The two tippler bins cost $3840 (ex GST) and Trueform were able to get 50 percent ($1920) of this reimbursed via the NSW EPA Bin Trim rebate scheme.Stephen Mitchell of Stephen Mitchell Associates helped Trueform get the rebate by filling out the necessary forms and doing the calculations needed to justify the rebate.

 “This NSW Government rebate system is great for wood manufactures with less than 250 employees who are still disposing timber to landfill,” Mitchell says. “Another manufacturer in Sydney and a pallet manufacturer in Newcastle area are currently developing rebate applications.