GRANT LEADS TO LESS CONSTRUCTION WASTE IN LANDFILL

I inspected ABB Midcoast’s “bulk-up depot” at Coolongolook, funded with support of a $987,544 grant from former Federal Coalition Government’s Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grants Program.

The facility is helping to reduce the amount of construction and demolition waste going to landfill.

The gyprock material from construction and demolition sites is brought to the facility to be sorted and transported to South Kempsey where it is processed into gypsum for the local agricultural industry.

This has created 10 local jobs and is helping to reduce the amount of waste going into landfill each year.

I congratulate ABB Midcoast on the initiative.