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To increase recycling
The Department of Urban Services is currently developing a long term waste management strategy for the ACT and the results of the survey, including comments on the Big Bin and a Regional Recycling Centre for Weston Creek, are an important input to this process. The Department will continue promotional activities to advertise the location of recycling centres and promote recycling. These activities have included the recent recycling brochure distributed to all households in Canberra and an article in the Canberra Book.
. The community support for recycling has offered further encouragement to the kerbside recycling trial which will commence eater this year. During tire twelve months trial, recycling materials will be collected from households in conjunction with the garbage collection service. Following evaluation of the trial, the Government will consider the introduction of kerbside recycling throughout Canberra.
To improve ACTION bus service and the number of bus changes
. The implementation of direct express services, the "7 Series" Commuter Express, from suburbs to the City, thereby eliminating a change of buses and considerable travel time. The first of these express services from Kambah and Coleman Court in Weston were introduced on November 4,1991.
It is not proposed to make a separate report to the Assembly on the matter. Preliminary results of the Survey and other community consultation input, were incorporated in the 1991-92 Budget. This was documented in the 1991-92 Budget Paper Nor. A summary of the results of the survey has been published in the "1991 Survey of Ratepayers and ACT Housing Trust Tenants". Copies of this publication are on sale at the Civic Shopfront, at $10.00 per copy.
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