More recyclables are being sent to landfill during COVID-19 lockdowns as Victorians isolating at home put takeaway food containers, coffee cups and parcel delivery wrapping in the wrong bin, writes chloebooker | recycling lockdown
More recyclables are being sent to landfill during COVID-19 lockdowns as Victorians isolating at home put takeaway food containers, coffee cups and parcel delivery wrapping in the wrong bin.
Almost half of kerbside recycling sent to landfill in 2020-21 was contamination, up from a quarter the previous year and 36 per cent the year before that. “People are putting the wrong garbage in the wrong bin ... It’s putting more and more pressure on landfill, all the time.” Victorian Waste Management Association president Adrien Scott, who runs waste collection company SOLO Resource Recovery, said he was currently seeing volumes of about 15 per cent more than pre-pandemic levels.
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