Thousands of tonnes of New South Wales waste sent each week to south-east Queensland to be recycled is trucked straight to landfill without any processing, a Fairfax Media investigation has found.
In what industry insiders admit is a “rort” that has been going on for at least three years, waste companies are using Queensland recycling facilities to obtain paperwork exempting them from NSW rules limiting the transport of metropolitan waste by road more than 150 kilometres from its source.
Continuing on from the Victorian Rubbish Crisis thread. Posted here to give more detail on the issue and note the daily volumes heading north. 30 B doubles and a stack of containers by rail.....