The Hinchinbrook Shire Council is committed to reducing waste going to our landfill. Council is therefore shifting focus from seeing waste as simply 'waste', to treating waste as a potential resource which needs to be recovered and recycled.
There are three key issues that Council is working to address within the local waste space:
- The space available within our landfill is rapidly decreasing;
- Many household recycling bins are heavily contaminated; and
- Valuable recyclable resources are being lost through the kerbside collection and commercial waste streams.