Clyde. Request to handle more refuse

The private operator of the Woodlawn waste site near Goulburn, the French group Veolia, is seeking to nearly treble the amount of the refuse it can handle from Clyde waste transfer station as pressure mounts on the city's declining landfill capacity. The Wright Report found the city's four landfills will be full within six years, putting increasing focus on the Goulburn facility. Potential transfer stations nominated by Veolia for taking waste by rail to Woodlawn include Botany, Cooks River, Enfield, Chullora, Camelia, Riverstone and Emu Plains. Veolia is also bidding to buy the state-owned WSN Waste Services, a rival waste group, which is to be sold to the private sector.

'Green' energy created from Sydney's waste

The Clyde Transfer Terminal has moved over 1 million tonnes of mixed solid waste from councils and commercial contractors in the Sydney metropolitan area to the Veolia Environmental Services’s Woodlawn Bioreactor, near Canberra, since 2005. Full operation of the bioreactor’s first generator commenced in February 2008 producing viable ‘green’ energy, produced from methane gas created by the waste. Energy Australia uses this energy to power homes in NSW. Veolia is also undertaking mine rehabilitation works and progressing with a wind farm, aquaculture and horticulture projects at the site, the company said.