Recoverd Paper and Card being processed at Mastagard - Copyright SIFTNZ
Let’s start the week off with another statistic. So far we have looked at Plastic, Glass, Metal, Wood and Textiles & Rubber and there are still a few more waste streams to go that make up all of the waste that ends up here at Kate Valley Landfill.
Paper and Card makes up 14% – that’ s just over 32,000 tonnes to June 2009. The good thing is that this figure is down 39% on the year before (meaning more is being recovered and recycled) but that still seems like a lot of paper and cardboard that could have been recycled. One assumes that it has ended up in landfill because it is contaminated in some form which again highlights the need for our recycling/rubbish processes to become more efficient at separating out anything that could contaminate a waste stream.
**Source – Christchurch City Council, based on % breakdowns of waste sent to landfill as sourced from the Christchurch City Council’s 2008 solid waste survey conducted between July and December 2008. The figures are indicative only.
Tags: Christchurch City Council, Kate Valley Landfill, Mastagard, Paper and Cardboard, recycling, waste
