Page 1428 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 1 May 1990
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Let us now get onto the issue of compostable matter. As Mr Duby has already said, a lot of compostable matter was going into the Ainslie tip.
Mr Duby: It was 70 per cent.
Mr Wood: It's not the case.
MR JENSEN: Is it not the case, Mr Wood? Was it just big trees? Were there no garden clippings at all? Where were the garden clippings going, Mr Wood? Through you, Mr Speaker, we have to ask Mr Wood. I apologise for not addressing my remarks through the Chair, but I think it is important, Mr Speaker. One has to ask: where was all this compostable matter going? As Mr Moore quite clearly said, he composts his own rubbish in his backyard.
Mr Wood: So do I, but I still go to the tip.
MR JENSEN: It is good that these members across here are keen to do that. I hope that they encourage their constituency to take up the task of composting matter in their own backyards so that they can improve the soil that we in Canberra, particularly those of us who live in the south, know is not particularly brilliant. We need that compostable matter.
It is interesting that one of the issues that was also raised by the report that was produced by the Assembly committee related to the need for these sorts of facilities. The only tip that has it at the moment is the one at Mugga Way.
Mr Duby: Mugga Lane.
MR JENSEN: Mugga Lane, all right. I suspect that at some stage or other there probably was a tip at Mugga Way; Calthorpes' House probably had its own tip at one time.
A large amount of the waste disposed of at the Ainslie Transfer Station, as I have said, consisted of garden waste, such as grass and clippings. It is appropriate for us to encourage people to compost it at their own locations, not to cart it off to the tip, because that also increases the amount of petrol that they use and produces other gases that relate to the problems associated with the greenhouse effect.
Mr Speaker, the Government will be seeking to ensure that all citizens of the ACT, not just people in north Canberra, have ready access to recycling facilities at their nearby shopping centres. I recall, from driving around Tuggeranong, that those facilities are available at the major group centres. Let us see those sorts of facilities being available - - -
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