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WA Govt allocates $10 million for recycled construction and demolition waste

The Western Australian government will invest $10 million in an incentive to increase local councils’ the use of recycled construction and demolition materials in civil engineering projects.

The Western Australian government will invest $10 million in an incentive to increase local councils’ the use of recycled construction and demolition materials in civil engineering projects. The Western Australian government will invest $10 million in an incentive to increase local councils’ the use of recycled construction and demolition materials in civil engineering projects.

Over three years, the Construction and Demolition Product Procurement Incentive Program will invest $10 million of Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Account funds in two streams.

The first stream will provide a pre-allocated, non-competitive financial incentive payment for each metropolitan local council, which uses recycled construction and demolition products in its own operations. The second will involve open, competitive funding for the purchase and use of recycled construction and demolition products by the private sector, metropolitan local governments and state government entities.

The program is focused on the use of recycled road base, but includes recycled fill sand and recycled drainage aggregate

WA Environment Minister Albert Jacob said in a statement it was important that better use was made of recycled construction and demolition materials to reduce the amount going to landfill.

“Western Australia has a poor record in the use of recycled construction and demolition materials,” he said.

“This waste makes up about half of all materials sent to landfill in Western Australia, while the products it could replace, such as limestone, are getting harder to source close to the metropolitan area.

“It’s our aim to see all metropolitan local governments using recycled construction and demolition products and experiencing the benefits.”

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