Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Environment Victoria has today welcomed moves by the Brumby Government to increase landfill levies and called on all parties in the Parliament to support the new levy schedule.

The proposed changes to the landfill levy were introduced in Parliament this morning. The levy for dumping a tonne of waste at a metropolitan waste facility will rise from current rates of $9 per tonnes to $30 tonne next financial year, with further increases in following years. This will bring Victoria closer to the landfill levy in other states such as New South Wales.

http://environmentvictoria.org.au/media/new-landfill-levies-will-boost-recycling-and-ease-landfill-burden