Victoria’s waste management practices need reform to reflect world’s best practice. With the innovation and technology now available, we should be reducing the size of our landfills, not making them bigger.
Labour DLP supports moving towards more sustainable and innovative waste management strategies and practices, which improve recycling and enable the production of renewable energy. Our candidate for Bendigo East, Helen Leach, recently commented in the Bendigo Advertiser supporting waste-to-energy. The local Greens candidate, on the other hand, is opposed to the idea. Click here to read the article..
Modern waste-to-energy is a proven technology used globally to generate clean, renewable energy from the sustainable management of solid waste. These modern plants are very different to the incinerators of a few decades ago, which usually did not remove hazardous or recyclable materials before burning.
Rather than increasing the size of our landfills, which are a health hazard to the people who live near them, we should be investing in more sustainable, innovative and efficient waste disposal.
