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involved in recycling projects within the ACT. I was very pleased to be at the launch - last week, actually - of a new recycling campaign which we are initiating throughout the ACT to mark World Environment Day on 10 December. We felt that it was appropriate to launch that last week because it was National Wastebusters Day, which appeared to me to be a very sensible time to do it.
The response that the Government has put into recycling initiatives involves a whole range of issues, including a letterbox drop through Queanbeyan and all the Canberra suburbs advising people of what recycling initiatives the Government has taken; advising them about the location and type of recycling facilities which exist at their local shopping centres, for example, whether they be bottle banks, can recycling facilities, paper facilities or even composting facilities. We have recently established a drop-off facility for garden waste on the northside at Mitchell as part of our composting program at the west Belconnen landfill site which has been announced. The Government now has two composting facilities, one at Mugga Lane and one at west Belconnen.
This has had an enormous response from people. Part of the letterbox drop indicated that people should ring a recycling information phone number within my department, and I have been advised that that number has virtually run hot since these letterbox drops were done right throughout the whole community. People are inquiring where they can go with their waste material. That is a very welcome innovative approach that the people of Canberra have adopted. It is also pleasing to note that, as a result of the initiatives that the Government has taken, that waste material which previously used to be dumped and used as solid fill at the tip at a very large cost to the community is now being recycled. The volume that is now being recycled is substantially greater than that recycled prior to the closure of the Ainslie Transfer Station. In other words, I think it is fair to say that the people of Canberra have taken to recycling with a vengeance. Indeed, I think it is quite obvious that on a per capita basis we lead the nation in this regard.
Tuggeranong Swimming Pool
MR CONNOLLY: My question is to the Chief Minister. What action will the Chief Minister take about the allegation by the editor of the Tuggeranong Valley View on the Matthew Abraham program this morning that he was threatened and abused by a senior public servant for publishing stories critical of the Decoin swimming pool proposal?
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