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Media Release - September 2011

2010 Tasmanian Awards for Environmental Excellence

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AWARD - Category Winner
Dulverton Waste Management/Cradle Coast Councils – North-West Regional Recycling

The Cradle Coast Recycling Program involves seven northwest councils - Central Coast, Devonport City, Kentish, Burnie City, Waratah Wynyard, Circular Head and Latrobe - facilitated and managed by Dulverton Waste Management with Veolia Environmental Services. This innovative $15 million contract will see the rollout of a kerbside recycling service to 37,000 households and kerbside collection services until 2019.

Households previously recycled on average 95kg of waste each year. The recycling program is now achieving 216 kg per household a year – an astounding 230 per cent increase.

Gerald Monson, Darren Higgins, Justin Jones, Shane Eberhardt, Peter George, Clr Mike McLaren, Jeff McNamara

Devonport Chamber Commerce & Industry
2010 North West Business & Industry Awards

BEST ENVIORNMENTAL PRACTISES AWARD - Category Winner

This award is for the Dulverton Organics Recycling Facility, which is now diverting some 25,000 tonnes of Organic waste from landfill and turning this into a product that can be used with the farming and agriculture industry.

Clr Mike McLaren with the award