Page 1886 - Week 06 - Thursday, 30 July 2020
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Mr Steel: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) Based on 2017 data, 9.3% from commercial loads and 12% from household waste bins is recyclable material sent to Mugga Lane landfill.
(2) The percentage of recyclable material by weight has decreased from 16.3 to 9.3% from 2015 to 2017 from commercial loads and 23.7 to 12% from 2014 to 2017 from households.
(3) The ACT Government are carrying out a range of activities to improve recycling outcomes, including;
a. Educating the community through the Recycling Discovery Hub, community outreach and the online Recyclopaedia;
b. The introduction of the Container Deposit Scheme as a source of high quality, source separated recycling;
c. Future introduction of legislation to phase out selected single-use plastics items; and
d. Working with our regional council partners to implement the #RecycleRight awareness campaign.
(4) The 2018 ACT Waste Feasibility Study notes that 143,048 tonnes of waste were considered organics within the ACT and were landfilled – around 50% of all the waste to landfill. Organic categories include vegetation, paper/cardboard, food organic, timber and other (ie cat litter, animal faeces, ash).
(5) The composition of organic waste by weight has decreased in percentage terms from households by 11.6% between 2014 and 2017 and increased from commercial loads by 4.6% between 2015 and 2017.
(6) Based on the ACT Waste Feasibility Study, 78,716 tonnes of organic waste landfilled were from commercial sources and 64,332 tonnes were from households.
Parking—Gungahlin
(Question No 3163)
Ms Lawder asked the Minister for City Services, upon notice, on 3 July 2020 (redirected to the Minister for Planning and Land Management):
(1) Can the Minister inform if there will be any remaining free parking areas in Gungahlin or is all parking in the area transitioning to paid parking
(2) Given that currently there are various areas of free parking around the Gungahlin town centre, however, recently signs have been erected in these areas indicating that they will soon become paid parking, can the Minister provide a map showing areas of free parking as (a) at 31 December 2019, (b) expected at 30 June 2020 and (c) expected at 31 December 2020.
Mr Gentleman: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
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