Australia needs construction waste recycling plants — but locals first need to be won over
- Written by Salman Shooshtarian, Research Fellow, RMIT University
Strong community opposition to a proposed waste facility in regional New South Wales madeheadlines earlier this year. The A$3.9 million facility would occupy 2.7 hectares of Gunnedah’s industrial estate. It’s intended to process up to 250,000 tonnes a year of waste materials from Sydney.
Much of this is construction waste...