THE GLEN Innes community recycling centre which will help local residents to significantly reduce landfill was officially opened yesterday by Mayor Colin Price and Local MP Adam Marshall.
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The construction of the centre followed a grant of $238,300 from the State Government last year to Glen Innes Severn Council through the NSW Environment Protection Authority’s (EPA) Waste Less, Recycle More initiative.
Glen Innes Severn Council Mayor Colin Price said that the new facility would provide a year-round, convenient solution for recycling and safely disposing problem waste.
“The new weighbridge and waste drop off area is easy to use which benefits not only council but residents by diverting the maximum amount of waste from landfill,” he said.
“When this council first formed we were told there was only about three years life left on this site and setting up a new site would have cost about six to eight million dollars.
“We spent some money on getting good consultants who told us that by changing the waste management procedures we’d get 25 years out of this site and then we can go into the neighbouring site, so in effect we are now set up for the next 100 years.”
Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall said the new recycling facility, which is now accepting paints, oils, batteries, gas bottles, polystyrene and other household problem wastes, would bring long-term environmental and health benefits to the Glen Innes community.
“The new Community Recycling Centre is a great asset to Glen Innes as the community now has a facility for the safe disposal of problem wastes open all year round,” he said.
“With residents now having a new service to keep household problem waste out of kerbside bins the community will be able to reduce the amount of environmentally hazardous and recyclable materials that end up as landfill.
“This centre makes recycling so much easier for the community and the staff at the waste facility and provides a large incentive for people to recycle more and put less into the landfill, saving the environment and saving the community money.”
JR Richards Waste and Recycling Services representative Jaymie Kelly said they have seen the efforts made by residents, through education, to recycle since they have been awarded the household collection contract.
