Page 1611 - Week 06 - Thursday, 3 May 1990
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an order of the ACT Supreme Court which effectively restrains the sale of the site to allow further discussions to continue. Those discussions will continue. Hopefully they will result in the Commonwealth deciding that its actions were inappropriate and wrong and the question will no longer arise, but the outcome of those negotiations will have to be awaited.
Fire-extinguishers
MS FOLLETT: My question is to Mr Kaine as the Minister for the environment and I refer Mr Kaine to page 7 of his report Developing an ACT Strategy to Respond to the Greenhouse Effects. Mr Kaine, I note that the ACT Government is replacing its fire-extinguishers with those not containing ozone depleting substances. My question is: what arrangements have been made to ensure that the existing extinguishers are disposed of in a way which does not damage the ozone layer and are not resold for use as fire-extinguishers?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I am not an expert on the disposal of material which is harmful but I can assure the Leader of the Opposition that, once those fire-extinguishers have been replaced with more appropriate ones, the Government will ensure that they are properly disposed of in such a way that they do not present a hazard to the environment. Naturally we will have to take advice from experts in this matter who can advise me on how best to do that.
Mr Speaker, I request that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
Ainslie Transfer Station
MR DUBY: Speaking yesterday, Mrs Grassby asked a question in relation to the Ainslie Transfer Station. She asked me to tell the Assembly the amount of waste delivered to the Ainslie Transfer Station; the proportion of recycling carried out there compared to the other tips in Canberra; the number of individual visits to the transfer station per week; and the number of trips from the transfer station required to remove the waste per week.
My answer to the member's question is as follows: on average, 240 tonnes of waste were delivered to the Ainslie Transfer Station per week, giving an estimated 12,500 tonnes per annum. The average varied, of course, from week to week. Approximately 16.5 tonnes of paper and 3.6 tonnes of glass were collected at the transfer station each week. For paper and glass, these amounts are similar to that collected through Belconnen tip and roughly two-thirds of the amount collected through the Mugga Lane tip. Details on volumes of aluminium cans and PET plastics have not been
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