Last Modified: Tue Dec 19 2017 10:00:01 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
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20%
of waste in the average garbage bin in the City of Ballarat, consists of green garden waste which ended up in a regular landfill.
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40,000
residents are now part of a Green Waste Service implemented by City of Ballarat this year. The initiative is part of the long-term goal to use the waste as fuel for a proposed bio energy plant.
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8,000 tonnes
will now be diverted from landfill annually and trucked to Mt Wallace for composting to be processed for landscaping and agricultural purposes.
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6,900 tonnes
Collected from July 2016 to end of Feb 2017.
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10,000 tonnes
Collected from Jul 2016 to end of May 2017.