Rhodes. Sale of waste services

The NSW Government aims to sell WSN Environmental Solutions, its waste services operator, by the end of the year. WSN, based at Rhodes,has a number of waste and recycling depots in Western Sydney. It is expected some of the land assets of WSN, such as a large parcel of land it owns, at Chullora, will be sold separately, which will reduce the value of the remaining assets to about $300-350 million.

Chullora. Major milestone for recycler

Leading Sydney recycler WSN Environmental Solutions and joint venture partner Australian Glass Technologies have reached their first major milestone with their Chullora glass recycling plant processing its 5,000th tonne of glass fragments. The facility, commissioned in January this year, with the assistance of a grant from the National Packaging Covenant, to process a stockpile of 120,000 tonnes of glass fragments measuring less than 25 millimeters that were previously difficult to recycle.