PORT Macquarie-Hastings Council will receive $473,065 from the NSW Government’s Waste Less, Recycle More initiative, Port Macquarie MP Leslie Williams has announced.
Ms Williams said the funding would provide kitchen caddies to every home in Port Macquarie to encourage residents to recycle food waste with their regular green-lid bin collection and will also support an upgrade for the Kingfisher Road Waste Management Centre to improve collection and storage of household problem wastes.
“Wastes like paints, oils, gas bottles and batteries will be able to be dropped off for free all year round for safe disposal or recycling,” Ms Williams said.
“This is a great result for Port Macquarie and will benefit the entire community and our environment by improving our waste and recycling services.
“I commend Port Macquarie-Hastings Council on achieving these grants and look forward to seeing these new services up and running.”
Environment Minister Rob Stokes said the Waste Less, Recycle More initiative will see a number of grants awarded to councils and businesses across NSW through the Environmental Trust.
“These grants will be used to boost food and garden waste collections for more than 200,000 households, roll out 36 new community recycling centres or services, and upgrade nine different resource recovery facilities across NSW,” Mr Stokes said.
“Overall, the state-wide projects are expected to recover and divert at least 152,000 tonnes of recyclable waste from landfill in NSW each year.
“That is a significant amount of recyclables saved from rotting in landfill and funnelled back into the productive economy helping to make a significant contribution to reaching our state-wide waste and recycling goals.
The NSW Government’s Waste Less, Recycle More initiative is a five-year $465.7 million package to transform waste and recycling in NSW. It includes funding for business recycling, market development, managing problem wastes, new waste infrastructure, local councils and programs to tackle illegal dumping and litter.
