By Kate Taylor<\/p>\n
Moorabool Shire Council will be carefully considering all recycling options.<\/p>\n
The collapse of SKM Recycling left councils across the state taking residents\u2019 recycling to landfill, including Moorabool.<\/p>\n
The Moorabool News followed up with council on the issue after the City of Ballarat announced that its recycling will commence – but that residents would be provided with a separate crate for glass recycling that must be dropped off at collection points.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the moment we\u2019re back in the recycling game \u2013 it\u2019s going to recycling, but not all of it,\u201d Mayor Cr Paul Tatchell explained.<\/p>\n
But he said that Moorabool will not be immediately adopting the separate-glass idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to put a glass solution in place but you have to have an end game – is there a market? And what is the cost of it? This is headline grabbing stuff with no plan. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not putting together a knee-jerk reaction to this problem, we\u2019ll put together a long-term plan. By putting our rubbish on boats to China, we\u2019ve been kicking the can down the road for the next generation to deal with,\u201d Cr Tatchell said. <\/p>\n
He also told the Moorabool News council has not yet received a response to a letter sent to the state government, at the request of Councillor Tom Sullivan, asking for a refund of the money paid by council as levies on recycling dumped at landfill during the recycling crisis \u2013 money that goes to the state government.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, we haven\u2019t had a response, and we\u2019re probably unlikely to. There\u2019s no way known the government\u2019s going to give this money back. They\u2019re using it to help prop up their AAA credit rating because they\u2019ve overspent,\u201d Cr Tatchell said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Kate Taylor Moorabool Shire Council will be carefully considering all recycling options. The collapse of SKM Recycling left councils across the state taking residents\u2019 recycling to landfill, including Moorabool. The Moorabool News followed up with council on the issue after the City of Ballarat announced that its recycling will commence – but that residents […]<\/p>\n