Page 4188 - Week 11 - Thursday, 17 Sept 2009
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recyclable goods to landfill. That is the advice I have. I found the explanation convincing, I accepted it, and I am more than happy to provide the written explanation to you. But it does require some explanation of the contractual arrangement, and I simply do not have that in my head.
MR SPEAKER: Ms Bresnan, a supplementary question?
MS BRESNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. How can you be sure that you are receiving reliable data given that the Auditor-General’s report also said that the conflict of interest caused by a single operator at the tip creates risks for the reliability of data on waste recycling and costs?
MR STANHOPE: Really I am repeating myself, Mr Speaker. I had advice on it. I did not commit the advice to memory. I am more than happy to provide the advice to the members of the Greens.
Ms Le Couteur: Mr Speaker—
MR SPEAKER: Ms Le Couteur, I am sorry but you cannot ask a further question. The standing order says “other members”, not the original member. Ms Porter?
MS PORTER: Thank you. Can the Chief Minister explain, in relation to the management of waste in the ACT, how the various elements are managed as landfill and recyclables?
MR STANHOPE: I must say I had trouble understanding Ms Porter, through what I hope was not a swine-flu induced—
Ms Porter: Do you want me to repeat the question?
MR STANHOPE: I thank Ms Porter for her question. I am not quite sure which element of waste I might go to in the time I have available.
The ACT, in the policies it has pursued variously since self-government, has actually created for us the enviable position, I think within the world, that in a major metropolitan city of this size we have the most successful recycling facility and record certainly of any place in Australia and, in the context of the world, one of the most enviable and successful records of achievement in relation to reducing waste to landfill and in achieving recycling rates. We have, for a number of years now, exceeded 70 per cent of all waste to landfill or waste collected being effectively recycled. It is an enviable record.
Any discussions or any perceived criticisms in this place in relation to this government’s record of achievement in relation to waste or to recycling services and their success need to be a discussion undertaken in the context that we have by far, by a country mile, the best record in relation to recycling in Australia and amongst the best in the world.
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