Community Resource Recovery Centre
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The facility will divert waste from landfill by increasing the level of sorting and capturing of reusable, recyclable, or recoverable materials. Landfill volumes at the current rate will fill the existing landfill cell by October 2025 therefore investment in a new cell is crucial and costly. The CRRC will help expand the lifetime of the current cell due to the diversion of waste. It's estimated more than 2,700 tonnes of waste per annum will be diverted from landfill. Our gatehouse operations contractor, Outlook (Aust.) Limited, will weigh all the waste diverted at the CRRC which will enable us to track exactly how much waste is being diverted from the landfill face.
The CRRC will be set up with bays for our residents to place their steel, cardboard, eWaste, car batteries, greenwaste, cooking oil and items that can be sold in the Yeppoon Reuse Market (previously known as the Tip Shop). This helps our community to divert as much waste as possible, to make this easier when you arrive at the Yeppoon Landfill, to save time and resources, we encourage you to sort your load at home, refer to the section Sort your Load and Save below for useful tips.
The CRRC will be easy to use although at first it may be a little confusing. There is a big sign at the Yeppoon Landfill entry point which explains the coloured lines to follow to dispose of your waste it’s simply “drive on the lines and follow the directional signs”! The lines you will see on the bitumen are red to take your waste to the transfer bins, follow the yellow to the CRRC to place your recyclables in a bay and follow the green lines to the green waste bay.
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