Behind the scenes at Tamworth tip
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