❓ A WA parliamentary question on notice regarding waste-derived compost production in Perth, including the number of plants, use of biosolids, tonnage produced, planned plants, and end uses of the compost product.
AnsweredQoN 5543Legislative Council
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(2) How many resources recovery plants in Perth produce waste derived from compost?
(3) How many of these plants are incorporating biosolids into the compost product and how much?
(4) What is the total tonnage of waste-derived compost produced now, broken down by plant?
(5) How many more plants are planned and where?
(6) How and where is the waste-derived product used?
(3) How many of these plants are incorporating biosolids into the compost product and how much?
(4) What is the total tonnage of waste-derived compost produced now, broken down by plant?
(5) How many more plants are planned and where?
(6) How and where is the waste-derived product used?
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Answered
13 November 2007
Responded by
Parliamentary Secretary representing the Minister for the Environment
Response time
48 days
(1) Yes.
(2) The Minister believes that the Hon Paul Llewellyn meant to ask 'How many resources recovery plants in Perth produce compost derived from waste?' if this is the case then the answer would be two - one plant operated by Southern Metropolitan Regional Council and the other by the Atlas Group.
(3) One - the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council. Approximately three tonnes of biosolids per week from Rottnest Island, though the quantity fluctuates seasonally.
(4) The Southern Metropolitan Regional Council produces approximately 25,000 tonnes per year. There are no tonnage figures available for the Atlas Group facility, however approximately 50,000 cubic metres are produced per year.
(5) Two - in the Mindarie Regional Council and Western Metropolitan Regional Council areas.
(6) Compost produced at the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council facility is used for sub-soil application for turf production at Gingin, and as absorbent material for decontaminating soils removed from hydrocarbon-contaminated sites in the Kwinana industrial area.
Compost produced at the Atlas Group facility is used solely at a farm at Calingiri, predominantly for broadacre application.
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(2) The Minister believes that the Hon Paul Llewellyn meant to ask 'How many resources recovery plants in Perth produce compost derived from waste?' if this is the case then the answer would be two - one plant operated by Southern Metropolitan Regional Council and the other by the Atlas Group.
(3) One - the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council. Approximately three tonnes of biosolids per week from Rottnest Island, though the quantity fluctuates seasonally.
(4) The Southern Metropolitan Regional Council produces approximately 25,000 tonnes per year. There are no tonnage figures available for the Atlas Group facility, however approximately 50,000 cubic metres are produced per year.
(5) Two - in the Mindarie Regional Council and Western Metropolitan Regional Council areas.
(6) Compost produced at the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council facility is used for sub-soil application for turf production at Gingin, and as absorbent material for decontaminating soils removed from hydrocarbon-contaminated sites in the Kwinana industrial area.
Compost produced at the Atlas Group facility is used solely at a farm at Calingiri, predominantly for broadacre application.
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