RECYCLING has reached a new high underfoot and wheels with materials from Kingston wheelie bins used to repair and repave roads as part of a Green Roads program.
Kingston Council has hired the Alex Fraser Group to collect glass not usually able to be recycled to be converted into asphalt used to repave roads throughout the municipality.
About 105,000 glass bottles — the equivalent of 375o wheelie bins — have been recycled so far to resurface streets in Mordialloc, Waterways, Braeside, Moorabbin and Clayton South.
Council CEO John Nevins said council aims to ensure all waste placed in Kingston residents’ recycling bins is put to reuse. ”Kingston residents can continue to sort their recycling with confidence, knowing they are helping to avoid landfill and create new recycled products,” Mr Nevins said.
Alex Fraser Group managing director Peter Murphy said finding new ways to recycle waste is one way to ease a pileup of recycling materials in Australia now China has stopped accepting most overseas waste in its landfills.
“If local governments want people to keep recycling, they have to also be involved in the market for recycled products,” Mr Murphy said. “This project is an excellent illustration of how local councils can proactively support their own kerbside recycling program and achieve high-quality assets for their community at competitive cost.”
The Green Roads program is an Alex Fraser Group campaign to encourage councils to ensure all waste in recycling bins is reused.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 15 August 2018