New state landfills are set to soar in the next few years, threatening to pose a "garbage crisis". The only benefit of this trend, according to the waste disposal industry, is huge taxes to enrich state coffers.
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a six-year review of the new state government's budget released at the end of last year showed that the financial department would charge A $133.4 million in waste and environmental fees in the current fiscal year and A $726.7 million in the next four years. At A $141.2 a tonne, the increase in government revenue means that 1 million tonnes of waste will flood into already stressed landfills.
Reid (Rose Read), chief executive of the National waste and Recycling Industry Council (National Waste and Recycling Industry Council), said: "overall, there is not much room. If something goes out of control, it will get closer and closer to the real risk. "
Among the factors contributing to the surge in landfill waste are China's import ban on "foreign waste", the construction boom in Sydney and Kunzhou's landfill fee system, which is due to take effect in July. Previously, Kunzhou received about eight hundred thousand tons of landfill waste each year from the new state.
Sweet (Colin Sweet), chief executive of (Australian Landfill Owners Association), the Australian landfills Association, said the new state had "a serious problem." We are approaching the critical point.
Currently, there are only three major landfills serving Sydney, of which only two are capable of receiving decaying or organic waste, and one in Lucas Heights (Lucas Heights), is operated by Suez (Suez); Another Woodland (Woodlawn), near Canberra is run by Veolia (Veolia). And the third major landfill is in East Creek, (Eastern Creek)., west of Sydney.
Since waste can only be transported by rail to Woodland, Sydney's municipal councils will not be able to dispose of residents' waste if there is a mountain fire in (Royal National Park), the Royal National Park, or other fires that cut off the southbound rail line. In this case, Sweet said: "the failure to collect decomposable waste will be an immediate threat to human health."
