Labor is promising regular food waste bin collections but the LNP is warning that would leave general waste to fester. An expert suggests something is missing.
Brisbane’s ratepayers would need to spend an additional $26 million each year to collect food and organic waste under a Labor proposal, according to the head of Australia’s recycling lobby.
However, the incumbent LNP administration has warned it could only be done at no additional cost to council if the red-top general waste bins were no longer collected weekly. Labor’s lord mayoral candidate, Tracey Price, insists the party’s food waste policy can be implemented at no cost. She has accused LNP of lying about the proposal.“But then, once you’ve collected the stuff, you have to take it somewhere. Where is the organic market? Where is this stuff going to go?”
“Those trucks are already collecting green-top bins around our suburbs,” she said, adding that “stopping at an extra couple of houses” would not cost as much as the LNP says. “You will never get 100 per cent of the organics out of the red bin. People will use the green bin as a garbage bin when they fill up the red bin up – this happens internationally,” Ralph said.
Schrinner acknowledged more waste trucks would be needed to service an increased number of homes, describing it as a “real sleeper issue” in the council election.
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