Ten million kilos of recycling to go to landfill following SKM collapse

And the Australian Council of Recycling has even laid out a roadmap for how a reboot of the troubled system could work.

"SKM had an unusual model for South Australia in that they took all of the waste from the yellow bins and compressed it into bales at a strong rate of compression," EPA chief executive Peter Dolan said.As part of SKM's business practice, waste was transported to Victoria and then shipped to China, Mr Dolan said.

"It's degraded, there's contamination in those containers, be it food scraps or whatever, and that's now deteriorated to a state where it's not possible to process."Environment Minister David Speirs said the waste equated to more than one per cent of the total amount that goes to landfill across metropolitan Adelaide each year.

"An independent waste expert examined the material and determined with current South Australian technology, the material is not suitable for recovery at this time due to degradation.

How about a campaign on TV to educate people how to recycle. Most of us want to do it, we’re just not sure how to do it

What's wrong with 10,000 tonnes. Not really that significant against the millions of tonnes generated.

So much for all that recycling effort. More stories are appearing about similar situations. Why can’t the brains at the UN organize a sustainable solutions that are cost effective with a green stamp of approval.

The returned rubbish has been segregated. If it can be salvaged later, not a big deal. In terms of the other stuff, a waste of waste. Perhaps we should invest more in our own recycling processing rather than offshoring. It's our rubbish after all. Might even create a few jobs.

Welcome to the clever country.

Move the decimal point to enhance headline

It's underground. No big deal.

Here's your true human failure and disaster. Yet you choose to peddle ClimateChange hoax !

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