Page 1625 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 10 May 2017
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Mr Steel’s motion claims success of the pilot program simply because it has started. This is unorthodox and, as I have said, very premature. It also does not learn from the history of green bins in the ACT. Mr Steel is a new member in this place and may well be interested to know that there has been a long and colourful history in this place—beyond the Greens—of exploring waste bins and waste strategy for the ACT. In fact, it was the Carnell Liberal government that back in 2000 established the first green bin trial in the ACT and let us not forget that it was a Stanhope Labor government that did not continue the program then because of the lessons that were learned from the trial.
The Carnell government’s green bin trial was announced as part of the 2000-01 budget and was a trial of 800 to a thousand bins in Chifley and was completed in 2001. The evaluation of that program was presented here in the Assembly. Another bit of history is that, in reviewing the trial of the green bins, the then leader of the Greens, Ms Tucker, said in this Assembly:
The Greens congratulate ACT Waste for initiating this trial—and also thank the residents of Chifley who participated in the trial. We have always been supportive of the target of no waste to landfill by 2010.
Whatever happened to that one? She continued:
This was initiated by the previous Liberal government and we are very supportive of it. It is quite a visionary target, as it highlights that, not only is it ideal from a sustainability prospective, to have a waste-free society but that it is also possible for this to be achieved …
It is sad that those on the other side have not been able to achieve what was once deemed possible.
In this place on 26 June 2002 the newly elected Labor member Ms MacDonald moved a motion relating to a trial of bio-bins in Chifley:
That this Assembly
(1) notes the trial of a third bin for green and food waste in Chifley, the Household Organic Material Collection Trial, and thanks the residents of Chifley for their participation …
She also welcomed the release of the report on the bio-bin trial and noted the results. Point 3 was:
congratulates ACT Waste on the innovative trial; and
Point 4 was that the Assembly:
looks forward to a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to deal with green and household waste in the near future.
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