Saving waste from landfill

Parramatta, Holroyd and Bankstown councils have signed a memorandum of undestanding for a joint tender to process up to 100,000 tones of garbage at one treatment plant. The tender will be decided in July 2008 with the new waste facility ready for operation by 2010.
The facility will turn 80 per cent of the garbage into either compost or green energy through methane collection. This is on top of the green waste and dry recycable components of the waste stream that are already recycled at the rate of 95 per cent, Parramatta council said.
"This exciting initiative ... will allow council to exceed NSW government targets of diverting 66 per cent of waste from landfill by 2114 ... we expect to achieve 82 per cent of waste diverted from landfill by 2012," said Parramatta Lord Mayor, Paul Barber.