INSPIRED by the electric vehicle success of a New Zealand rubbish behemoth, South Australian firm East Waste is making plans to pioneer a similar movement on this side of the Tasman. In what is believed to be an Australian first, East Waste is exploring the viability of running a fleet of electric-powered trucks for its seven member councils.
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ven with the impact of the costs associated with recycling, it is still economically and environmentally a far more viable alternative than disposal to landfill here in South Australia. The big issue is contamination and we all need to refocus our efforts on keeping contaminants out.
Click here to read the article published on page 19 of the Advertiser 23 April 2018.
You may have seen in the media recently stories concerning the China Sword and the impact it is having on the global recycling market.
With some of the reports misleading, it is important to know that recycling is still economically and environmentally beneficial to undertake.
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Click here to read the article 26 March 2018, on page 15 of The Advertiser – East Waste looking at electric garbage trucks powered by renewable energy: regarding our draft 18/19 Annual Plan proposal to investigate the feasibility of electric vehicles and power storage. “We are continually looking for new technology that will make our services more efficient, more effective and cleaner” (Rob Gregory, General Manager)
Click here to read the article 28 March 2018 in Australian Transport News: SA WASTE FIRM LOOKS AT POWERING OWN ELECTRIC PROPULSION: As South Australia looks on the way to surmounting its recent electricity issues, Eastern Adelaide garbage collection operator East Waste is starting to look beyond gas propulsion for its fleet.
East Waste has been working with the LGA to to enhance the Spotlight feature of the My Local Services App to deliver targeted key educational messages to the community on the correct practice for recycling and waste disposal.
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As of Thursday 28 September the City of Prospect became a Member Council of East Waste. Please CLICK HERE to read the Gazette.
8 August 2017:”Trashed: The dirty truth about your rubbish”
Following the story on Four Corners on Monday night ( (7th August) regarding some of the unfavourable elements and activities in the waste industry, a number of queries have been received. The program focused on minority elements of the waste industry, operating predominantly in northern NSW & Qld, where inconsistent state legislation allows an exploitation of the laws.
Locally, Member Councils have their own waste disposal contracts in place, separate from East Waste and while we are not across the back end activities of these, from our industry knowledge and observations, practices appear sound and importantly compliant. (more…)
East Waste’s new education campaign ‘Why waste it?’ has been developed to support their member councils to achieve SA Government Waste Strategy targets in waste reduction.
The central question of Why waste it? focuses the campaign on waste avoidance and increasing resource recovery. This is encouraged through the waste hierarchy principals of; avoid, reduce, re-use, recycle and compost by highlighting these as alternative options to ‘wasting it’
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Find out ‘which bin’ your household materials should be placed in.
