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A major report has highlighted the challenges facing WA in meeting waste recycling goals.

More than $1.6 billion is being invested in waste treatment projects in WA, but it may not be enough to improve the state's poor track record.

With several projects under way, the state also needs to develop markets for its recycled products in pursuit of a circular economy.

The government is considering changes to limit stockpiling and waste levy avoidance in the construction and demolition recycling industry.

Government, the public, and businesses need to work together to turn WA's poor recycling record around.

A new report has found Western Australia is likely to fall well short of its 2020 waste recovery targets, continuing a long pattern of failure.

Recent research on the recycling of building materials in Western Australia has highlighted a pressing need to help facilitate behavioural change across the state's construction sector, which is estimated to produce more than 1.5 million tonnes of waste each year.

Western Australia is leading the country in the adoption of waste-to-energy projects, with $1.2 billion being invested in two path-breaking facilities under construction.

Construction of Western Australia's second large scale waste-to-energy project will begin this month near Rockingham after the development consortium reached financial close just before Christmas.

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Former Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA chief executive Reg Howard-Smith has been appointed chairperson of the Waste Authority for a three-year term, replacing Marcus Geisler, who had served in the role since 2008.

Most people would not spend much time thinking about Western Australia's waste issues aside from considering into which bins to dump their household rubbish and recycling.

THE state government has confirmed a strategy designed to help reduce the level of construction and demolition waste going to landfill has been put on hold.

Environment Minister Bill Marmion has and allocated $17.2 million to the Waste Authority for the first year of a proposal designed to improve recycling rates.

Marcus Geisler has been appointed as chairman of WA's Waste Authority for a two-year term, to replace outgoing chair Peter Fitzpatrick.

Main Roads WA has reverted to using limestone for road base after asbestos fears prompted Transport Minister Troy Buswell to stop it using crushed construction and demolition waste.

The Barnett government has lifted the lid on its long-awaited waste strategy, pledging to improve recycling and regulation but has held off on increasing the landfill levy.

The state government will focus on improving waste recovery rates from the construction, demolition and industrial sectors to achieve "ambitious" targets in its new waste strategy, but has no plans

More than one million tonnes of recycled construction and demolition (C&D) waste could be diverted from landfill and used to build roads under a landmark agreement between Main Roads WA and the

The waste sector is hopeful the state government will release a waste policy next year ending a policy vacuum in this essential service sector.

THE new chair of the state's Waste Authority is looking to shake up the sector, starting with a new waste strategy with measurable goals and vowing to challenge the government over how it uses the

Environment Minister Bill Marmion has announced the appointment of Peter Fitzpatrick as the new chairman of the Waste Authority.

WESTERN Australia has the worst track record of any state for diverting waste from landfills, new data shows.

Environmental consultant Jim Malcolm has been appointed chairman of the Waste Authority.

More than 1.8 million tonnes of waste in Western Australia was recycled during 2008-09 according to the state government's Waste Authority.

NATIONAL glass recycler Colmax Glass is aiming to increase Western Australia's glass recycling rates from about 25 per cent to more than 80 per cent within 12 months with the opening of its reprocessing plant in Kewdale.

AN alternative fuel that could help tackle waste oil problems faced at mine sites is being tested and developed in Western Australia.

THE peak body representing regional councils has called on the state government to clarify its long-term strategic vision for waste management.

STATE government disincentives to the disposal of waste in landfill have met with an unfavourable response from local governments, which say they were not consulted in the policy's development and that they will not benefit from its introduction.

PERTH faces a waste management crisis if authorities do not build infrastructure to cope with increasing populations by 2019, says Perth Waste Authority chairman Barry Carbon.

THE members of Western Australia's new statutory waste authority, Waste Smart WA, were formally announced last week, with Barry Carbon to be chairman.