Coffs Coast Advocate

REVEALED: Plans to tackle local waste management

Residents have their say on Council strategies on how to reduce waste

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08th Feb. 2021 5:02 PM

More than 90 per cent of survey respondents would like to have glass recycled in yellow bins once more.

How no-nonsense Wayne shook up Hastings St

Helping create the ultimate up-market eat street to ensuring Noosa River retains its clean mantle is all in a life’s work...

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13th Nov. 2020 6:11 PM

Noosa's waste guru Wayne Schafer examining rubbish dumping with former councillor Sandy Bolton.

‘Big innovation’: Plans for $20M bioenergy plant

THE facility, which would be built on the Northern Rivers, would be the first of its kind in Australia.

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30th Oct. 2020 9:10 AM

Senior Project Manager John Hart near Byron Shire Council's wastewater treatment plant at the Byron Wetlands. Behind him is the site where the council hopes to build a major bioenergy facility.

‘I can taste it’: Fire pours toxic smoke on evacuated homes

Incredible photos show the full extent of a raging dump fire still burning in Cairns that forced residents to evacuate...

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16th Oct. 2020 12:10 PM

Council wants feedback on key regional waste strategy

THE Toowoomba Regional Council is seeking feedback on its waste management strategy, with the submissions period now open.

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25th Sept. 2020 12:09 PM

The Greater Toowoomba Waste Management Facility. Photo McNab

Powerful family behind ‘innovative’ thermal waste trial

A TOOWOOMBA company part-owned by a powerful family of brothers has been given approval to run an “innovative” thermal...

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09th Sept. 2020 5:09 AM

Toowoomba company Pyrocal's R and D facility. The firm has been approved to run a thermal waste management trial by the council.

DEVELOPMENT: Second weighbridge for regional dump

Gladstone Regional Council, with the help of Councillor Rick Hansen, has announced a new weighbridge for a local dump.

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27th Aug. 2020 5:08 PM

REVEALED: What keeps council callers up at night

Top issues for council call centres outlined in report

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19th Aug. 2020 9:08 AM

Robyn Corser, customer service officer at Fraser Coast Regional Council.

Explosives and chickens: Mackay trash risking lives

Why was a live chicken thrown in the trash? Garbage collectors pick through Mackay’s trash mysteries

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20th July 2020 6:07 PM

Mackay has tossed some weird and wacky things in their trash over the years, but garbage collectors fear an everyday household item in their trucks could cost lives.

WASTE CRISIS: Coffs ‘on the abyss’

Coffs Harbour is drowning in waste with Council facing crippling costs trucking it out of the region.

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21st May 2020 12:05 PM

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