MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday, 20 December 2023 One year on from a battery fire that destroyed a recycling facility in Australia’s capital city, the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR) is overwhelmingly concerned about increasing incidents involving the incorrect disposal of batteries causing property damage, serious injury and death—with these expected to Read more…
Many of you will have heard the unfortunate and sad news that REDCycle has put their soft plastics collections on hold. What should I do with my soft plastic now? For the short-term, we advise residents to place soft plastic wrappers and bags in your landfill bin (red or blue Read more…
Poor kerbside behaviour by South Australian households is creating $20 million each year in extra waste management costs, according to industry experts.
On Monday 10 August, Four Corners aired an American story about plastic recycling history and issues from America. Click here to view the preview of the story. The story reflects a situation occurring in America and doesn’t reflect what is occurring here in Australia/South Australia. Through NAWMA our plastics collected Read more…
MEDIA RELEASE, 29 May 2020 New research reveals that more than half of all landfill waste in metropolitan Adelaide is unrecovered resources that could be recycled simply by using the correct recycling or green organics bin. Much of it is food waste that goes to expensive landfill and harms the Read more…
In late October and early November of 2019, East Waste, embarked on the largest and most comprehensive kerbside bin audit ever undertaken in SA. The audit included 2,143 bins from 700 households from East Waste’s seven Member Councils. The information from the audit will not only benefit East Waste’s services Read more…