THE City of Kingston is committed to finding solutions to improve waste disposal and recycling opportunities for the community.
For more than a year, Kingston have provided households with food and organic waste disposal bins, which allow food waste to be processed into usable compost. They have been rolling out additional recycling bins in public spaces to increase opportunities for recycling.
Kingston Mayor Steve Staikos said they are also looking at how we can potentially utilise residual household waste that cannot go into either the food and organic bin or the comingled recycling.
“We are looking at how we could reduce landfill and convert this residual household waste into energy, through advanced waste processing,” Cr Staikos said.
“By 2046, Melbourne households will produce 1.5 million tonnes of rubbish annually – enough to fill the MCG more than two and a half times every year. Landfills in south-east Melbourne are filling up quickly and no more are planned to be built. That means large amounts of rubbish having to be transported across Melbourne to other landfills – and councils have to pay a premium to use them.”
Advanced waste processing technologies are used successfully and safely overseas to either recover valuable materials in household rubbish or transform it into energy. These technologies can reduce the amount of household rubbish sent to landfill by at least 85% and reduce our impact on the environment.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 29 September 2021