Recently you may have been paying some attention to what is regarded as rubbish that is being disposed of in an emergency situation like the Brisbane floods. If you did, you will have seen a great deal of recoverable material being consigned to landfill. Given that it was an emergency it is understandable but there is always the hope that once the crisis is over the opportunity to recover damaged and discarded resources will be taken. You see Brisbane City Council has a pretty good attitude towards resource recovery outside crisis time ... look here
Launceston's General Manager boasts that he has impressive credentials in regard to sustainability. If you check that out online you get some interesting results ... look here He does seem to have served on the odd committee but those committees seem to have delivered their outcomes in jurisdictions other than his and that looks likely to be repeated in Launceston given the Examiner's reporting of Council's first meeting for 2011 ... look here
Possibly it is a Melbourne Council like the City of Port Phillip that really benefited from the talkfests and clearly this Council can be used as a model Council that takes sustainability seriously ... look here Interestingly, the City of Port Phillip has taken its constituents need to dispose of their redundant Christmas trees to heart and found ways to help out.
Reading the Examiner's report of Launceston City Council first meeting for the year it is clear that Launceston Waste Management Centre is indeed somewhere where Council manages to be extraordinarily wasteful.
Ald Ball initiated a very well well-attended public meeting last year to workshop resource recovery options but in the end it was just another talkfest of the kind that Council operatives seem disinclined to actually do anything about. Yet again Launceston's constituency is being ignored.
It also appears that Launceston is actually committed to a long-term landfill policy despite its total inappropriateness and Launcestonians looking for for better outcomes.
What's more, when our elected representatives make an effort to bring about change their efforts are thwarted by bureaucratic humbug and recalcitrance.
The more Launceston invests in Waste Management the poorer the outcome but it is after all mostly about waste down at Town Hall. While the waste is managed is it is being there is every prospect of an increase in people's rates looming just over the horizon.
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