Canberra should aim for kitchen organic AND garden waste

Nov 15, 2017 | Campaigns, Waste

The ACT Government is about to spend $33.3 million on providing a third ‘green’ waste bin for all households in Canberra. This follows a ‘trial’ in Weston Creek and Kambah in 2016-17 at a cost of $1.3 million to over 7,000 households. It seems providing a ‘green’ bin...

Going backwards on reducing ACT’s waste

Oct 1, 2017 | Campaigns, Waste

The ACT is failing to achieve key targets in waste minimisation and waste management and now the ACT Government is trying to lead the Territory towards waste incineration to deal with its problems. The Conservation Council has produced a briefing paper – Going...

Waste Management Issues in the ACT

Sep 22, 2017 | Campaigns, Waste

A range of waste management issues and proposals has come on to the Conservation Council work program. We have been working with a range of groups and individuals on matters arising from the ACT Waste Feasibility Study in particular the proposed Fyshwick recycling and...

Lack of Unified Vision for Waste Education

Jun 15, 2017 | Campaigns, Waste

“vision can be formed by asking what the ACT Government and the ACT community want to become and what they want to achieve in the future” Problems with Current Visions The ACT Government acknowledges they have no single unified vision for waste education...