The recycling crisis in Australia: easy solutions to a hard problem
- Written by Ian A. MacKenzie, Senior Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland
The amount of landfill in Australia is expected to rise since China is no longer buying our recycling waste. But there are easy solutions to this big problem.Nicolás Boullosa/flickr, CC BY
Ipswich residents have been told their recycling waste will now be dumped into landfill because it is too expensive for the local council to recycle.
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