Behind the scenes at Tamworth tip

The Northern Daily Leader

Tamworth Regional Council gives us the inside scoop on recycling initiatives at the region's largest waste processing facility. Video by Jonathan Hawes

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00:00Look, the council or the community, the Tamworth Regional Council community, bring their green

00:14waste in here and we contract through a company called Renew Organics to turn their green

00:20waste into compost and a variety of other products which the same people can then purchase

00:26back and put on their gardens.

00:28We've introduced a forced aeration system to improve the aeration of the compost and

00:34also we've added some additional equipment that helps efficiently shred and strain the

00:42compost or the input materials to make a good compost.

00:59The other really important message I'd like to get across to the community here is that

01:04the compost and the mulch that we make and they use, buy and use in their gardens and

01:08on farms is made from the garden waste that comes into the facility.

01:13That's through the kerbside green bin and also dropped off here at the facility.

01:17It's really important that we keep the inorganic materials out of our green waste, plastics,

01:22metals, glass, so that we have the cleanest possible product coming out and going out

01:28onto land.

01:29But it's not just organic materials that gets recycled out here, there's also metals and

01:34concretes like the big pile behind me of clean concrete that can be reused for other construction

01:39such as roads or bridges or other infrastructure projects.

01:52For more information visit www.fema.gov

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